flageolet

English

Cooked flageolet beans in a bowl.

Etymology

Borrowed from French flageolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflæʒəleɪ/, /ˈflæd͡ʒəlɪt/

Noun

flageolet (plural flageolets)

1. (music) A type of small flute of the fipple family.
2. (music) A technique for playing stringed instrument that produces high-pitched overtones.
3. A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.

Derived terms

• flageoletist
• flageolet register

 

Translations

type of small flute

• Catalan: flageolet (ca)
• Dutch: flageolet (nl) m
• Esperanto: flaĝoleto (eo)
• French: flageolet (fr) m
• Galician: fraixolé m
• German: Flageolett (de) n
• Ido: flajoleto (io)
• Irish: fideog f, fideog adhmaid f
• Italian: zufolo (it) m
• Polish: flażolet (pl) m, flageolet (pl) m
• Russian: флажоле́т (ru) m (flažolét)
• Telugu: పిల్లనగ్రోవి (te) (pillanagrōvi)

type of kidney bean

• French: flageolet (fr) m
• Polish: flażoletka (pl) f, flageolet (pl) m

References

• “flageolet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

• flageolet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.ʒɔ.lɛ/

Etymology 1

From Old French flajol (“flute”) + diminutive -et; probably from Vulgar Latin *flabeolum (“flute”), from Latin flāre (“to blow”).

Noun

flageolet m (plural flageolets)

1. (music) flageolet (type of small flute)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian fagiolo (“bean”), from Latin phaseolus (“bean”), diminutive form of phasēlus, from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “bean”).

Noun

flageolet m (plural flageolets)

1. A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.

Further reading

• “flageolet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.