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verlan en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /vɛə(ɹ)ˈlɑːn/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From French verlan, itself a verlan of à l'envers (“upside down or back to front”).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A type of backslang used in French, in which the order of the syllables or sounds of words is changed.

Deriveds

verlanize · verlanise

Translations (14)

ja ヴェルラン (type of backslang used in French) · ja ベルラン (type of backslang used in French) · de Verlan (type of backslang used in French) · nl verlan (type of backslang used in French) · pl verlan (type of backslang used in French) · fr verlan (type of backslang used in French) · pt verlan (type of backslang used in French) · sv verlan (type of backslang used in French) · it verlan (type of backslang used in French) · es verlan (type of backslang used in French) · hu verlan (type of backslang used in French) · uk верла́н (type of backslang used in French) · el βερλάν (type of backslang used in French) · ru верла́н (type of backslang used in French)