Béarn
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French Béarn.
Proper noun
Béarn
- A geographic area and former province in the current Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Occitania, France.
- (historical) A former viscounty in the southwestern French Pyrenees, which became part of the French royal domain before it was united with the French crown, together with Navarra, as a single feudal province of the French realm.
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Translations
former viscounty
Anagrams
Dutch
Proper noun
Béarn n
- Béarn (a geographic area and former province in the current Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Occitania, France)
Related terms
- béarnaise (béarnaisesaus)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Occitan Bearn, from Medieval Latin Beneharnum, corruption of Benarni, Vernarni, Gaulish pronunciation of an Aquitanian/Basque tribe in southwest France.
The municipality in Québec is named after the Béarn Regiment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be.aʁn/
- Rhymes: -aʁn
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Proper noun
Béarn m
- Béarn (a geographic area and former province in the current Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Occitania, France)
- Pau est la capitale du Béarn
- Pau is the capital city of Béarn
- a municipality of Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality, Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, Quebec, Canada
Derived terms
- Baigts-de-Béarn
- Béarnais
- béarnais
- béarnaise
- Saint-Girons-en-Béarn
- Salies-de-Béarn
- sauce béarnaise
- Sauveterre-de-Béarn
References
- Malpas, Jeff (2015): The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics, Bloomsbury Publishing
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
das Béarn n (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Béarn or des Béarns)
- Béarn (a geographic area and former province in the current Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Occitania, France)
Related terms
- Béarnaise