besoin

Inherited from Middle French, Old French besoing; can be seen as a masculine variant of besogne, from Old French besonge, from Old Frankish *bisunnija, from *sunnijōn (“to look after”) (whence soigner), possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *bisonium. Compare Italian bisogno.

• IPA^(key): /bə.zwɛ̃/

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besoin m (plural besoins)

1. need
2. want (state of being in need)

• besogneux

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

• Bosnie

From French besoin (“need”), compare Haitian Creole bezwen.

besoin

1. to need

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales