Rabbit is spelled "lapin" (masc.) in French -- "un lapin" means "a rabbit."
The word Rabbit in french is: Lapin
lapin
A rabbit is un lapin
French fries are called 'frites' in French (no mention of them being 'French')
It means rabbit.lapin means rabbit in French.
un lapin is the masculine noun for 'rabbit' in French.
Associate a sound with something they like, such as food or a scratch behind their ears. i.e. Whistle right before you feed them, after awhile they will come right when you whistle.
le lapin is masculinea she-rabbit is la lapine (feminine)
This is from the Concise Oxford Dictionary: Rabbit is a Middle English word: apparently from Old French, perhaps of Dutch origin (cf. Flemish robbe). So nobody 'made it up' but the word has developed from an Old French word or possibly Dutch word into the word we use today.
"A rabbit" and "one rabbit" are English equivalents of the French phrase un lapin.Specifically, the word unmeans "a, an" as a masculine singular noun and "one" as a number. The masculine noun lapin translates as "rabbit." The pronunciation will be "eh la-peh" in French.
The French word lapin comes from the Latin word lepus for hare.
A rabbit in french = un/le lapin :)