burnoose

English

Alternative forms

• bernouse, bornous, bournous, burnous, burnouse

Etymology

From French burnous, from Arabic بُرْنُس (burnus).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɝˈnus/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɜːˈnuːs/

Noun

burnoose (plural burnooses)

1. A thick hooded cloak worn by Berbers and Arabs in Northwest Africa.

Translations

a thick hooded cloak

• Amharic: በርኖስ ? (bärnos)
• Arabic: بُرْنُس m (burnus)

  Egyptian Arabic: برنوس m (barnūs)

  Moroccan Arabic: سلهام m (salhām), برنوس m (barnūs)

• Bulgarian: бурнус m (burnus)
• Dutch: boernoes (nl) m
• Esperanto: burnuso
• French: burnous (fr) m
• German: Burnus (de) m
• Hungarian: burnusz (hu)
• Polish: burnus (pl) m
• Portuguese: albornoz (pt) m
• Russian: бурну́с (ru) m (burnús)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бу̀рнус ?

  Roman: bùrnus (sh) ?

• Spanish: albornoz (es) m
• Tarifit: aserham m

Further reading

• burnous on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Osbourne