gerboise
French, noun/ʒɛʁ.bwaz/
gerboise is spelled G-E-R-B-O-I-S-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gerboise is a French feminine noun meaning “jerboa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mammifère rongeur (surtout Allactaga) dont les pattes de devant sont fort courtes & les postérieures fort…”.
What does gerboise mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininejerboa
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mammifère rongeur (surtout Allactaga) dont les pattes de devant sont fort courtes & les postérieures fort longues et qui marche et saute facilement à l’aide de leurs pattes de derrière en s’équilibrant avec leur queue. 2. Homme homosexuel.
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 gerboise
- gerboises plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gerboise?
- /ʒɛʁ.bwaz/
- \ʒɛʁ.bwaz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gerboise
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gerboise in French?
gerboise appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).