effleurir
French, verb/e.flœ.ʁiʁ/
effleurir is a French verb meaning “to effloresce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Devenir à l’état d’efflorescence”.
What does effleurir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to effloresce
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Devenir à l’état d’efflorescence. 2. Qualifie un minéral qui tombe en poudre, notamment en perdant son eau de cristallisation ou de constitution.
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 effleurir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- effleurissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- effleuri participle past
- effleuris first-person indicative present
- effleurit indicative present singular
- effleurissons first-person indicative plural
- effleurissez indicative plural present
- effleurissent indicative plural present
- effleurissais first-person imperfect indicative
- effleurissait imperfect indicative singular
- effleurissions first-person imperfect indicative
- effleurissiez imperfect indicative plural
- effleurissaient imperfect indicative plural
- effleurîmes first-person historic indicative
- effleurîtes historic indicative past
- effleurirent historic indicative past
- effleurirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce effleurir?
- /e.flœ.ʁiʁ/
- \e.flœ.ʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.