zouave
French, noun/zwav/
zouave is spelled Z-O-U-A-V-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,881st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zouave is a French masculine noun meaning “Zouave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Soldat d’un corps d’infanterie créé en Algérie en 1830 et dissous en 1962”.
What does zouave mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineZouave
- 2
masculinean eccentric person
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Soldat d’un corps d’infanterie créé en Algérie en 1830 et dissous en 1962. 2. Soldat au service du Vatican à une époque. 3. Membre des « zouaves civils », une association catholique du XIXᵉ siècle. 4. Individu excentrique.
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 zouave
- zouaves plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zouave?
- /zwav/
- \zwav\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to zouave
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zouave in French?
zouave appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).