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a location where troops assemble prior to a battle. While this figurative meaning also exists in French, the first and literal meaning of point d'appui is a fixed point from which a person or thing executes a movement (such as a footing in climbing or a pivot). porte-cochère an architectural term referring to a kind of porch or portico-like ...
The French traveler Jean Benjamin de Laborde, who visited Turkey during that century, recorded that "the bağlama or tambura is in form exactly like the cogur, but smaller." The Çoğur/Çöğur was in many ways a transitional Instrument between old Komuz and new Bağlama style and has a body shape similar to the Instrument called panduri in ...
* Tuning given is approximate: does not follow western equal temperament Requinto: 6 strings 6 courses. A 2 D 3 G 3 C 4 E 4 A 4: Requinto guitar Mexico 4th above the standard guitar Ronroco: 10 strings 5 courses. Standard Argentine (G 6 /Em7): D 4 D 4 •G 4 G 4 •B 4 B 3 •E 4 E 4 •B 4 B 4. Standard Bolivian (F 6 /Dm7): C 4 C 4 •F 4 F 4 ...
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes ...
French Persian (Persian alphabet) Persian (Perso-Latin alphabet) Meaning and usage abat-jour آباژور âbâžor floor lamp, lampshade abcès آبسه âbse abscess: abonnement آبونمان âbonmân subscription abstrait آبستره âbstre abstract acétone استن aseton acetone acide اسید asid acid accolade آکولاد âkolâd
The following list details words, affixes and phrases that contain Germanic etymons. Words where only an affix is Germanic (e.g. méfait, bouillard, carnavalesque) are excluded, as are words borrowed from a Germanic language where the origin is other than Germanic (for instance, cabaret is from Dutch, but the Dutch word is ultimately from Latin/Greek, so it is omitted).
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The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...