kirundi
French, noun\ki.ʁun.di\
kirundi is spelled K-I-R-U-N-D-I (7 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kirundi is a French masculine noun meaning “Kirundi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue bantoue, très proche du kinyarwanda, parlée au Burundi”.
What does kirundi mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineKirundi
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Langue bantoue, très proche du kinyarwanda, parlée au Burundi.
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 kirundi
- kiroundi
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kirundi?
- \ki.ʁun.di\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is kirundi in French?
kirundi appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).