boutre
French, noun/butʁ/
boutre is spelled B-O-U-T-R-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boutre is a French masculine noun meaning “dhow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Voilier traditionnel originaire de la mer Rouge, gréé d’un ou plusieurs mâts portant chacun une voile latine”.
What does boutre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedhow
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Voilier traditionnel originaire de la mer Rouge, gréé d’un ou plusieurs mâts portant chacun une voile latine. 2. Petit cargo de construction traditionnelle arabe qui s’adonne au cabotage en mer Rouge et dans l’océan Indien, à coque en bois très élancée.
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 boutre
- boutres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce boutre?
- /butʁ/
- \butʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is boutre in French?
boutre appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).