émaner
French, verb/e.ma.ne/
émaner is spelled É-M-A-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 61,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émaner is a French verb meaning “to emanate, to come (from)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dégager par particules impondérables d’un corps dont la substance n’en est ni diminuée, ni altérée…”.
What does émaner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to emanate, to come (from)
Le rapport émane du groupe de travail mis en place il y a deux ans à Bali sous l'égide de la Convention des Nations Unies.
- 2
to radiate
Les phéromones émanent de glandes endocrines.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se dégager par particules impondérables d’un corps dont la substance n’en est ni diminuée, ni altérée sensiblement. 2. Provenir de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose. 3. Engendrer, produire.
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 émaner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- émanant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- émané participle past
- émane first-person indicative present
- émanes indicative present second-person
- émanons first-person indicative plural
- émanez indicative plural present
- émanent indicative plural present
- émanais first-person imperfect indicative
- émanait imperfect indicative singular
- émanions first-person imperfect indicative
- émaniez imperfect indicative plural
- émanaient imperfect indicative plural
- émanai first-person historic indicative
- émanas historic indicative past
- émana historic indicative past
- émanâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émaner?
- /e.ma.ne/
- \e.ma.ne\
- [e.ma.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to émaner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émaner in French?
émaner appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).