cauri
French, noun/ko.ʁi/
cauri is a French masculine noun meaning “cowrie, money cowry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit mollusque gastéropode de la famille des cypréidés (Cypreidae), une porcelaine de l’océan Indien et de…”.
What does cauri mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecowrie, money cowry
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit mollusque gastéropode de la famille des cypréidés (Cypreidae), une porcelaine de l’océan Indien et de l’océan Pacifique tropicaux. 2. Coquille de ce mollusque. Anciennement utilisée comme monnaie en Océanie, en Asie et en Afrique, lors du commerce triangulaire. 3. Coquille de ce mollusque, utilisée comme bijou.
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 cauri
- cauris plural
- Cauri alternative
- kauri alternative
- kouri alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cauri?
- /ko.ʁi/
- \ko.ʁi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cauri
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cauri in French?
cauri 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).