barrir
French, verb/ba.ʁiʁ/
barrir is spelled B-A-R-R-I-R (6 letters). Barrir is a French verb meaning “to trumpet (to make the sound of an elephant's cry)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “En parlant de l’éléphant ou du rhinocéros, pousser le cri particulier à leur espèce”.
What does barrir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trumpet (to make the sound of an elephant's cry)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. En parlant de l’éléphant ou du rhinocéros, pousser le cri particulier à leur espèce.
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 barrir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- barrissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- barri participle past
- barris first-person indicative present
- barrit indicative present singular
- barrissons first-person indicative plural
- barrissez indicative plural present
- barrissent indicative plural present
- barrissais first-person imperfect indicative
- barrissait imperfect indicative singular
- barrissions first-person imperfect indicative
- barrissiez imperfect indicative plural
- barrissaient imperfect indicative plural
- barrîmes first-person historic indicative
- barrîtes historic indicative past
- barrirent historic indicative past
- barrirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce barrir?
- /ba.ʁiʁ/
- \ba.ʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.