mugir
French, verb/my.ʒiʁ/
mugir is spelled M-U-G-I-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 105,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mugir is a French verb meaning “to moo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pousser son cri, en parlant des bovins”.
What does mugir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to moo
Entends mugir les vaches.
- 2
to roar
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pousser son cri, en parlant des bovins. 2. Donner de la voix, quand on la force et qu’elle approche du mugissement, pour un humain. 3. Faire un bruit fort et long assimilé au mugissement des bovins.
verb: 1. Pousser son cri, en parlant des bovins. 2. Faire le bruit des flots de la mer, des vents, des torrents, etc., quand ils sont violemment agités. 3. Donner de la voix, quand on la force et qu’elle approche du mugissement, pour un humain.
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 mugir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mugissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mugi participle past
- mugis first-person indicative present
- mugit indicative present singular
- mugissons first-person indicative plural
- mugissez indicative plural present
- mugissent indicative plural present
- mugissais first-person imperfect indicative
- mugissait imperfect indicative singular
- mugissions first-person imperfect indicative
- mugissiez imperfect indicative plural
- mugissaient imperfect indicative plural
- mugîmes first-person historic indicative
- mugîtes historic indicative past
- mugirent historic indicative past
- mugirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mugir?
- /my.ʒiʁ/
- \my.ʒiʁ\
- [my.ʒiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mugir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mugir in French?
mugir 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).