Béarn

See also: bearn, Bearn, beàrn, and Bèarn

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French Béarn.

Proper noun

Béarn

  1. A geographic area and former province in the current Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Occitania, France.
  2. (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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Dutch

Proper noun

Béarn n

  1. Béarn (a geographic area and former province in the current Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Occitania, France)

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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

  1. 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
  2. a municipality of Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality, Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, Quebec, Canada

Derived terms

References

  • Malpas, Jeff (2015): The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics, Bloomsbury Publishing

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German

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Proper noun

das Béarn n (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Béarn or des Béarns)

  1. Béarn (a geographic area and former province in the current Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Occitania, France)
  • Béarnaise