garou

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁu/

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Inherited from Middle French garou, from Old French garoul, garval, garvalf, garwaf, garwall (Marie de France, c. 1175, Old Northern French), guarou, guaroul, wareu, wareul, warou (“werewolf”), from Frankish *werawulf. OED suggests the French being from Old Norse vargulfr, which however occurs only in the translation of Marie's lay of Bisclavret. In sense 2, back-formation from loup-garou (“werewolf”).

garou m (plural garous)

1. (archaic) werewolf
2. (in combination) were- (used like a suffix)

   lapin-garou ― were-rabbit

Alternative form of garoupe

garou m (plural garous)

1. daphne, any plant of the species of genus Daphne, particularly spurge olive (Daphne mezereum) as well as Cneorum tricoccon and the flax-leaved daphne (Daphne gnidium)

• “garou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French garrot.

garou n (plural garouri)

1. garrot