habous
French, noun/a.bus/
habous is spelled H-A-B-O-U-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Habous is a French masculine noun meaning “habous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bien de mainmorte”.
What does habous mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehabous
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bien de mainmorte. 2. Sorte de fondation religieuse.
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.
How do you pronounce habous?
- /a.bus/
- ^((h aspiré))\a.bus\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is habous in French?
habous appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).