Béarn
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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French Béarn.
Proper noun
Béarn
- (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.
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Translations
former viscounty
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Dutch
Proper noun
Béarn n
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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
Proper noun
Béarn m
- the Béarn region in the French Pyrenees
- Pau est la capitale du Béarn
- Pau is the capital city of Béarn
- A municipality of Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.
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References
- Malpas, Jeff (2015): The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Proper noun
das Béarn n (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Béarn or des Béarns)
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