borní

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بُرْنِيّ (burniyy), a falcon-name apparently after Hibernia rather than after Bornu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [burˈni]

IPA^(key): (Valencian) [boɾˈni]

Noun

borní m

(obsolete, Balearic) lanner falcon
Synonym: falcó llaner

Further reading

“borní” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 255

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