برني

Arabic

Etymology 1

Arabic sources claim it is Persian, and Persian ones that it is Arabic (which often means it is from Middle Persian or Early New Persian and reinvigorated in Persian from Arabic).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar.nijj/

Noun

بَرْنِيّ • (barniyy) m

  1. a date variety (clarification of this definition is needed)
Declension

Etymology 2

Apparently after Hibernia rather than after Bornu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bur.nijj/

Noun

بُرْنِيّ • (burniyy) m (plural بَرَانِيّ (barāniyy))

  1. (Morocco, al-Andalus) a kind of falcon
Declension
Descendants
  • Catalan: borní
  • Portuguese: borní
  • Spanish: borní

Further reading

  •  Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 135
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