برنية
Arabic
Alternative forms
- ברניא (barniyya) – Judeo-Arabic
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bar.nij.ja/
Noun
بَرْنِيَّة • (barniyya) f (plural بَرَانِيّ (barāniyy))
- a kind of wide storage pot of glass or clay
- 2018, Lambourn, Elizabeth, 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
Declension of noun بَرْنِيَّة (barniyya)
| Singular | singular triptote in ـَة (-a) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | بَرْنِيَّة barniyya | الْبَرْنِيَّة al-barniyya | بَرْنِيَّة barniyyat |
| Nominative | بَرْنِيَّةٌ barniyyatun | الْبَرْنِيَّةُ al-barniyyatu | بَرْنِيَّةُ barniyyatu |
| Accusative | بَرْنِيَّةً barniyyatan | الْبَرْنِيَّةَ al-barniyyata | بَرْنِيَّةَ barniyyata |
| Genitive | بَرْنِيَّةٍ barniyyatin | الْبَرْنِيَّةِ al-barniyyati | بَرْنِيَّةِ barniyyati |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | بَرْنِيَّتَيْن barniyyatayn | الْبَرْنِيَّتَيْن al-barniyyatayn | بَرْنِيَّتَيْ barniyyatay |
| Nominative | بَرْنِيَّتَانِ barniyyatāni | الْبَرْنِيَّتَانِ al-barniyyatāni | بَرْنِيَّتَا barniyyatā |
| Accusative | بَرْنِيَّتَيْنِ barniyyatayni | الْبَرْنِيَّتَيْنِ al-barniyyatayni | بَرْنِيَّتَيْ barniyyatay |
| Genitive | بَرْنِيَّتَيْنِ barniyyatayni | الْبَرْنِيَّتَيْنِ al-barniyyatayni | بَرْنِيَّتَيْ barniyyatay |
| Plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | بَرَانِي barānī | الْبَرَانِي al-barānī | بَرَانِي barānī |
| Nominative | بَرَانِيُّ barāniyyu | الْبَرَانِيُّ al-barāniyyu | بَرَانِيُّ barāniyyu |
| Accusative | بَرَانِيَّ barāniyya | الْبَرَانِيَّ al-barāniyya | بَرَانِيَّ barāniyya |
| Genitive | بَرَانِيَّ barāniyya | الْبَرَانِيِّ al-barāniyyi | بَرَانِيِّ barāniyyi |
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