bubale
French, noun\by.bal\
bubale is spelled B-U-B-A-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bubale is a French masculine noun meaning “bubale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce d’antilope d’Afrique dont les cornes annelées à double courbure ont la pointe en arrière”.
What does bubale mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebubale
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce d’antilope d’Afrique dont les cornes annelées à double courbure ont la pointe en arrière. 2. Variante de bubale roux (antilope).
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 bubale
- bubales plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bubale?
- \by.bal\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bubale
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bubale in French?
bubale appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).