blé noir
French, noun/ble nwaʁ/
blé noir is spelled B-L-É-N-O-I-R (7 letters). Blé noir is a French masculine noun meaning “buckwheat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Un des noms du sarrasin”.
What does blé noir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebuckwheat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Un des noms du sarrasin. 2. Nom d’une maladie du blé, qui peut être soit le charbon, soit la nielle, soit la carie, voire la rouille noire.
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 blé noir
- blés noirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blé noir?
- /ble nwaʁ/
- \ble nwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to blé noir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.