برنية

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Arabic

Etymology 1

From the toponym بَرْنِيق (barnīq, Benghazi) due to some source materials having been produced there, cognate to French vernis, English varnish, and particularly to certain southern Middle French names for a vase or platter breingal, beringuier, bernigant, bernigal, barnigal, vernigal, in obsolete Neo-Occitan bernigau, barnigau (begging bowl; chamber pot), berenguié (urinal), all passed via Byzantine Greek chemical designations.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

بَرْنِيَّة (barniyyaf (plural بَرَانِيّ (barāniyy))

  1. a kind of wide storage pot of glass or clay
    • 2018, Elizabeth Lambourn, Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 256 line 22:
      برنيتين ليمون وزنجبيل
      2 pots of citrus fruits and ginger
Declension
Descendants
  • Catalan: albúrnia, búrnia
  • Spanish: albornía

References

  • برنية” in Almaany
  • Baldinger, Kurt (1988) Etymologien. Untersuchungen zu FEW 21–23. Band 1 (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie; 218), Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 225
  • Lambourn, Elizabeth (2018) Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 264

Etymology 2

Probably taṣhīf for بَرِّينَة (barrīna); i.e. we don’t believe this word belongs here, since the edition of Ibn al-ʕawwām is known to teem with corruptions, and only include it for clarity.

Noun

بَرْنِيَّة (barniyyaf (plural بَرَانِيّ (barāniyy))

  1. stake
Declension