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beggar:
- mendiant; mendiants; bougres
Wiktionary:
- beggar → mendiant, gueux, mendigot, vagabond
- beggar → gueux
- beggar → mendiant, oisif de la ville, colporteur

English

Detailed Translations for beggar from English to French

beggar:

beggar [the ~] noun

the beggar
le mendiant
- mendiant [le ~] noun
the beggar (rascal; vagrants)
le mendiants; le bougres
- mendiants [le ~] noun
- bougres [le ~] noun

Translation Matrix for beggar:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
bougres	beggar; rascal; vagrants
mendiant	beggar	prole; slob; wretch
mendiants	beggar; rascal; vagrants
-	mendicant
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	pauperise; pauperize

Related Words for "beggar":

beggars, beggarly

Synonyms for "beggar":

Related Definitions for "beggar":

a pauper who lives by begging¹
reduce to beggary¹
be beyond the resources of¹
- This beggars description!¹

Wiktionary Translations for beggar:

beggar

noun

person who begs
- beggar → mendiant

beggar

adjective

(vieilli) ou ironique|fr Qui est indigent, nécessiteux.
- gueux → beggar; rogue; villain

noun

(vieilli) ou ironique|fr Celui qui fait métier de demander l’aumône, mendiant.
- gueux → beggar
Celui, celle qui fait profession de mendier.
- mendiant → beggar
très familier|fr mendiant.
- mendigot → beggar
(term, Souvent péjoratif) personne errante, sans domicile, sans patrie.
- vagabond → vagabond; hobo; bum; tramp; beggar

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• beggar	→ mendiant	↔ Bettler — bedürftiger Mensch, der von Almosen lebt
• beggar	→ oisif de la ville; colporteur; mendiant	↔ Mokkum-Geier — (umgangssprachlich) städtischer Müßiggänger; Bettler, Hausierer

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University