beur
French, noun/bœʁ/
beur is spelled B-E-U-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beur is a French masculine noun meaning “a man of Maghrebi descent born and living in France” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne d’origine maghrébine”.
What does beur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea man of Maghrebi descent born and living in France
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne d’origine maghrébine.
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 beur
- beurs plural
- beurette derogatory feminine
- Beur alternative
- beure feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beur?
- /bœʁ/
- \bœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is beur in French?
beur 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).