turbiner
French, verb/tyʁ.bi.ne/
turbiner is spelled T-U-R-B-I-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written French, the 172,049th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Turbiner is a French verb meaning “to churn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire passer par une turbine”.
What does turbiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to churn
- 2
colloquialto bust a gut (work hard)
- 3
slangto walk the street, prostitute oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire passer par une turbine. 2. Travailler. 3. Se prostituer en racolant 4. Travailler, faire penser sans arrêt.
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 turbiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- turbinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- turbiné participle past
- turbine first-person indicative present
- turbines indicative present second-person
- turbinons first-person indicative plural
- turbinez indicative plural present
- turbinent indicative plural present
- turbinais first-person imperfect indicative
- turbinait imperfect indicative singular
- turbinions first-person imperfect indicative
- turbiniez imperfect indicative plural
- turbinaient imperfect indicative plural
- turbinai first-person historic indicative
- turbinas historic indicative past
- turbina historic indicative past
- turbinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce turbiner?
- /tyʁ.bi.ne/
- \tyʁ.bi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is turbiner in French?
turbiner appears about once in every 29 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).