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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic بُرْنِيّ (burniyy), a falcon-name apparently after Hibernia rather than after Bornu.
Pronunciation
Noun
borní m
- (obsolete, Balearic) lanner falcon
- Synonym: falcó llaner
Further reading
- “borní” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 255