Béarn
English
    
    
Proper noun
    
Béarn
- (historical) A former viscounty in the southwestern French Pyrenees, which became part of the French royal domain before it was united with the French crown, together with Navarra, as a single feudal province of the French realm.
- Béarn and the (Basque) region Lower Navarre formed the present département of the Basses-Pyrenées.
 
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French
    
    Etymology
    
From Medieval Latin Beneharnum, corruption of Benarni, Vernarni, Gaulish pronunciation of an Aquitanian/Basque tribe in southwest France.
The municipality in Québec is named after the Béarn Regiment.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /be.aʁn/
- Rhymes: -aʁn
Proper noun
    
Béarn m
- the Béarn region in the French Pyrenees
- Pau est la capitale du Béarn- Pau is the capital city of Béarn
 
 
- A municipality of Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.
Derived terms
    
- Baigts-de-Béarn
- Béarnais
- béarnais
- béarnaise
- Saint-Girons-en-Béarn
- Salies-de-Béarn
- sauce béarnaise
- Sauveterre-de-Béarn
References
    
- Malpas, Jeff (2015): The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics, Bloomsbury Publishing
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German
    
    Pronunciation
    
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Proper noun
    
das Béarn n (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Béarn or des Béarns)
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- Béarnaise
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