maigre

Etymology

Borrowed from French maigre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ɡɚ/

Adjective

maigre (not comparable)

1. (cooking) Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day).
2. Belonging to a fast day or fast.

Noun

maigre (plural maigres)

1. A kind of fish; the meagre.

Anagrams

• Margie, gamier, imager, mirage

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin macer, macrum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛɡʁ/

• Audio

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Adjective

maigre (plural maigres)

1. meagre, skinny
2. lean, thin

Noun

maigre m (plural maigres)

1. meagre (fish)

Further reading

• “maigre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• émigra
• gémira
• germai
• mirage

Etymology

From Latin macer.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

  (file)

Adjective

maigre m, f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) thin