Pyrénées

the Pyrénées pl (plural only)

1. Alternative spelling of Pyrenees.
   • 1842, A Taylor, On the Curative Influence of the Climate of Pau, and the Mineral Waters of the Pyrenees, on Disease. , London: John W. Parker, , page 107:

     The Pyrénées form a chain of rocks continuing without any interruption from the ocean to the Mediterranean, and are the most considerable of Europe after the Alps.

   • 2010, Max Ciampoli, Linda Ciampoli, Churchill’s Secret Agent: A Novel Based on a True Story‎, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN:

     The Pyrénées were only about eleven hundred meters high at the point where we were to begin the climb on foot. But already there was a lot of snow.

   • 2010, Derek Shuff, Evader: The Epic Story of the First British Airman to Be Rescued by the Comète Escape Line in World War II, Stroud, Glos.: The History Press, →ISBN, page 120:

     The Pyrénées, rising at their highest to just over 11,000 feet, though rather less on the western end towards Hendaye, provided a naturally magnificent backdrop. It was as though God had had second thoughts about making Spain and France such close neighbours and had shovelled the rocky Pyrénées into place to keep the two countries apart.

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Pyrénées

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From Latin Pȳrēnaeī montēs, from Ancient Greek Πῡρήνη (Pūrḗnē).

• IPA^(key): /pi.ʁe.ne/

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Pyrénées f pl (plural only)

1. Pyrenees (a mountain range between France and Spain)

• → Ottoman Turkish: پیرنه (Pirene)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پیرنه‌لر (Pireneler)
  • Turkish: Pireneler
• → Persian: پیرنه (pirene)