برنس

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Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Via some Aramaic form (compare Mishnaic Hebrew בירוס, Classical Syriac ܒܝܪܘܢܐ) from Byzantine Greek βίρρος (bírrhos), from Latin birrus, from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *birros (short). Doublet of بِرْنِيطَة (birnīṭa).

Noun

بُرْنُس (burnusm (plural بَرَانِس (barānis))

  1. (obsolete) calotte
  2. burnoose, cloak

Declension

Derived terms

  • بَرْنَسَ (barnasa, to dress with a burnoose)
  • تَبَرْنَسَ (tabarnasa, to wear a burnoose)

Descendants

Verb

بَرْنَسَ (barnasa) Iq (non-past يُبَرْنِسُ (yubarnisu), verbal noun بَرْنَسَة (barnasa))

  1. (transitive) to dress in a burnoose

Conjugation

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “برنس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 79
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 73–80
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 50–51
  • Vollers, Karl (1896) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 50, page 616
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “برنس”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 84