charbon

Meaning

  1. coal
  2. anthrax
  3. smut (range of fungi that cause crop disease); fungus of the genus Ustilago

Frequency

C1
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃaʁ.bɔ̃/
Etymology

Inherited from Old French charbon, inherited from Latin carbōnem (“coal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker (“to burn”). Doublet of carbone.

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