carquois
French, noun/kaʁ.kwa/
carquois is spelled C-A-R-Q-U-O-I-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 71,364th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carquois is a French masculine noun meaning “quiver (for arrows)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étui à flèches”.
What does carquois mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinequiver (for arrows)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Étui à flèches. 2. Étui conçu pour la manutention, le transport ou l’entreposage des crayons de combustible nucléaire. 3. (Mathématiques) Structure mathématique analogue à un graphe orienté. Le carquois est formellement un quadruplet composé d'un ensemble de sommets, d'un ensemble d'arcs, d'une fonction associant à chaque arc sa source et d'une fonction associant à chaque arc son but (les sources et les buts étant des sommets).
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.
How do you pronounce carquois?
- /kaʁ.kwa/
- \kaʁ.kwa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to carquois
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is carquois in French?
carquois appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).