borní

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بُرْنِيّ (burniyy), a falcon-name apparently after Hibernia rather than after Bornu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [burˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [boɾˈni]

Noun

borní m

1. (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