sifflant
French
editParticiple
editsifflant
Adjective
editsifflant (feminine sifflante, masculine plural sifflants, feminine plural sifflantes)
- that makes or evokes a whistling
- (figurative) unpleasant (as piercing one's ear)
- Une voix sifflante.
- A shrieking voice.
- (phonetics) relative to a sibilant (see sifflante)}}.
Further reading
edit- “sifflant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.