noun, feminine/a.lɛn/plural: haleines
haleine is feminine in French.
breath; breathing, respiration
“Tout hors d'haleine il prend pourtant sa place” — All out of breath he took nonetheless his place
Inherited from Old French aleine, deverbal from alener (“to breathe”), from Medieval Latin anhēlō by metathesis. The h appeared around the 16th century under the influence of Latin hālō (“to blow”).