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onagre

French, noun/ɔ.naɡʁ/

onagre is spelled O-N-A-G-R-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Onagre is a French masculine noun meaning “onager (mammal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Hémione (Equus hemionus)”.

What does onagre mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineonager (mammal)

  2. 2

    masculineonager (machinery)

noun

  1. 1

    feminineOenothera, evening primrose

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Hémione (Equus hemionus). 2. L’onagre de Perse (Equus hemionus onager) est une sous-espèce d’hémione. 3. Machine de guerre, sorte de baliste, ou de catapulte.

noun: 1. Synonyme de œnothère.

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 onagre

  • onagres plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce onagre?

  • /ɔ.naɡʁ/
  • \ɔ.naɡʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to onagre

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is onagre in French?

onagre 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).

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