buriner
French, verb/by.ʁi.ne/
buriner is spelled B-U-R-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written French, the 234,192nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buriner is a French verb meaning “to chisel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travailler au burin”.
What does buriner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chisel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Travailler au burin. 2. Arranger les incisives d’un cheval pour falsifier son âge apparent. 3. Il se dit quelquefois, au figuré, d’un écrivain énergique et profond. 4. Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
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 buriner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- burinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- buriné participle past
- burine first-person indicative present
- burines indicative present second-person
- burinons first-person indicative plural
- burinez indicative plural present
- burinent indicative plural present
- burinais first-person imperfect indicative
- burinait imperfect indicative singular
- burinions first-person imperfect indicative
- buriniez imperfect indicative plural
- burinaient imperfect indicative plural
- burinai first-person historic indicative
- burinas historic indicative past
- burina historic indicative past
- burinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buriner?
- /by.ʁi.ne/
- \by.ʁi.ne\
- [by.ʁi.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is buriner in French?
buriner appears about once in every 55 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).