glapir
French, verb/ɡla.piʁ/
glapir is spelled G-L-A-P-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written French, the 214,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glapir is a French verb meaning “to yelp, bark” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pousser des cris aigus, en parlant des petits chiens et des renards”.
What does glapir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to yelp, bark
- 2
to shriek
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pousser des cris aigus, en parlant des petits chiens et des renards. 2. Crier, en parlant de l’épervier. 3. Crier, en parlant – à tort – de la chouette. – Note : la chouette chôle, choule, chuinte, hioque, hôle, hue, hulule, lamente. 4. Dire ou chanter quelque chose sur un ton et avec une voix qui rappelle le glapissement.
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 glapir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- glapissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- glapi participle past
- glapis first-person indicative present
- glapit indicative present singular
- glapissons first-person indicative plural
- glapissez indicative plural present
- glapissent indicative plural present
- glapissais first-person imperfect indicative
- glapissait imperfect indicative singular
- glapissions first-person imperfect indicative
- glapissiez imperfect indicative plural
- glapissaient imperfect indicative plural
- glapîmes first-person historic indicative
- glapîtes historic indicative past
- glapirent historic indicative past
- glapirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glapir?
- /ɡla.piʁ/
- \ɡla.piʁ\
- [ɡla.piʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is glapir in French?
glapir appears about once in every 46 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).