Béarn

See also: bearn, Bearn, beàrn, and Bèarn

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French Béarn.

Proper noun

Béarn

1. (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.

   Béarn and the (Basque) region Lower Navarre formed the present département of the Basses-Pyrenées.

Related terms

• Béarnais
• béarnaise

 

Translations

former viscounty

• Arabic: بيارن
• Catalan: Bearn m
• Dutch: Béarn n
• French: Béarn (fr) m
• German: Béarn (de) n
• Greek: Μπεάρν m (Beárn)
• Italian: Béarn m
• Japanese: ベアルン (bearun)
• Lithuanian: Bearnas m
• Occitan: Bearn (oc) m
• Spanish: Bearne m
• Ukrainian: Беарн (Bearn)

Anagrams

• Abner, Baren, Beran, NBAer, Naber, baren, benar, brane

Dutch

Proper noun

Béarn n

1. The Béarn region in the French Pyrenees

Related terms

• béarnaise (béarnaisesaus)

Anagrams

• baren

French

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Béarn m

1. the Béarn region in the French Pyrenees

   Pau est la capitale du Béarn

   Pau is the capital city of Béarn

2. A municipality of Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 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

• berna

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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

1. Béarn (region in the Pyrenees, France)

Related terms

• Béarnaise