kirpan
French, noun\kiʁ.pɑ̃\
kirpan is a French masculine noun meaning “a kirpan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arme symbolique s’apparentant à un poignard, portée par les Sikhs orthodoxes pour rappeler le besoin de…”.
What does kirpan mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea kirpan
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Arme symbolique s’apparentant à un poignard, portée par les Sikhs orthodoxes pour rappeler le besoin de lutter contre l’oppression et l’injustice.
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 kirpan
- kirpans plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kirpan?
- \kiʁ.pɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kirpan
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kirpan in French?
kirpan appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).