maboul
French
Etymology
Attested 1860, from Arabic مَخْبُول (maḵbūl, “crazy”), presumably through Algerian Arabic مهبول (mehbūl).
Pronunciation
Adjective
maboul (feminine maboule, masculine plural mabouls, feminine plural maboules)
- (colloquial) crazy
- Synonym: fou
- 2003, “Elle me saoule”, performed by Singuila:
- Je sais qu'j'suis pas cool / Mais cette petite me saoule / Il m'faut de l'alcool ou j'vais devenir maboul
- I know I'm not cool / But shorty's got me vexed / I need some alcohol or I'm going to go crazy
Noun
maboul m (plural mabouls, feminine maboule)
- (colloquial) nutcase
- 2006, Virginie Despentes, “Salut les filles”, in King Kong Théorie [King Kong Theory], Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 143:
- S'affranchir du machisme, ce piège à cons ne rassurant que les maboules.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “maboul”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.