zayane
French, noun\za.jan\
zayane is spelled Z-A-Y-A-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zayane is a French masculine noun meaning “a variety of the Tamazight language of central Morocco” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variété parlée dans le Maroc central de la langue tamasheq, qui fait elle-même partie de la famille des…”.
What does zayane mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea variety of the Tamazight language of central Morocco
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Propre aux Zayanes.
noun: 1. Variété parlée dans le Maroc central de la langue tamasheq, qui fait elle-même partie de la famille des langues berbères.
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.
How do you pronounce zayane?
- \za.jan\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is zayane in French?
zayane appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).