savon

soap

Related: caisse à savon, herbe à savon, mousse de savon, passer un savon, savonner, savonnerie, savonnette, savonneux

Inherited from Middle French savon, from Old French savon (“soap”), from Latin sāpōnem (“soap”), from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ (“soap”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, drip, strain, trickle”). Cognate with Old English sāpe (“soap”). More at soap.