bendir
French, noun
bendir is spelled B-E-N-D-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written French, the 223,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bendir is a French masculine noun meaning “bendir” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tambour sur cadre d’environ 40 cm de diamètre, assez similaire au daf asiatique, faisant partie des…”.
What does bendir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebendir
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tambour sur cadre d’environ 40 cm de diamètre, assez similaire au daf asiatique, faisant partie des membranophones. Sous la peau de chèvre se trouvent 3, 5 ou 7 cordes qui vibrent.
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 bendir
- bendirs plural
- bendyr obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is bendir in French?
bendir appears about once in every 50 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).