flanc

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈflaŋk/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈflaŋ/

flanc f (plural flancs)

1. flank

• flanquejar

• “flanc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “flanc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “flanc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flanc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Italian fianco.

• IPA^(key): /flɑ̃/

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flanc m (plural flancs)

1. side (of person); side, flank (of animal)
2. (military) flank
3. side, slope (of mountain etc.)
4. (heraldry) flaunch

• flanquer

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

From Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō. More at English flank.

• IPA^(key): /flãnk/
• Rhymes: -ãnk

flanc m (oblique plural flans, nominative singular flans, nominative plural flanc)

1. side; flank (anatomy, side of a person)
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     El flanc senestre li a l'espié bagnié

     He bathed this sword in his left side

• Middle English: flanc
  • English: flank
• Middle French: flanc
  • French: flanc
• Norman: flianc (Jersey)