aboyer
French, verb/a.bwa.je/
aboyer is spelled A-B-O-Y-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 35,862nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aboyer is a French verb meaning “to bark” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire entendre son cri, en parlant d’un chien”.
What does aboyer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bark
- 2
to scream at or inveigh against somebody
- 3
derogatoryto scream or yell in short bouts; to bark
Il aboie des ordres sans s'arrêter pour respirer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire entendre son cri, en parlant d’un chien. 2. Pousser un son inarticulé, comparable au cri du chien, sous l’effet de diverses émotions ou sensations, positives ou négatives. 3. Crier d’un ton sec et inhumain, comme aboie un chien. 4. Dire du mal, avec acharnement, d’une personne ou d’une chose ; la poursuivre de cris importuns, d’injures.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aboyer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- aboyant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- aboyé participle past
- aboie first-person indicative present
- aboies indicative present second-person
- aboyons first-person indicative plural
- aboyez indicative plural present
- aboient indicative plural present
- aboyais first-person imperfect indicative
- aboyait imperfect indicative singular
- aboyions first-person imperfect indicative
- aboyiez imperfect indicative plural
- aboyaient imperfect indicative plural
- aboyai first-person historic indicative
- aboyas historic indicative past
- aboya historic indicative past
- aboyâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aboyer?
- /a.bwa.je/
- \a.bwa.je\
- [a.bwa.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aboyer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aboyer in French?
aboyer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).