برنا

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See also: ثرنا

Arabic

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Verb

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بُرْنَا (burnā) (form I) /bur.naː/

  1. first-person plural past active of بَارَ (bāra)

Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾpwlnʾd /⁠aburnāy⁠/, underage, youth), a Zoroastrian legal term borrowed from Avestan 𐬀𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬁𐬌𐬌𐬎 (apərənāiiu, underage), the negative of 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬁𐬌𐬌𐬎 (pərənāiiu, adult), from Proto-Iranian *pr̥Hnáh (full, filled).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? burnā
Dari reading? burnā
Iranian reading? bornâ
Tajik reading? burno

Adjective

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برنا (bornâ)

  1. (poetic) adolescent, young
    ز دانش دل پیر برنا بود. (proverb)
    ze dâneš del-e pir bornâ bovad.
    The aged heart becomes young from knowledge.

Noun

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برنا (bornâ)

  1. (poetic) youth
    • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The Tale of Rustam and Isfandiyār”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎[1]:
      بیفشارد چنگش میان سخن
      ز برنا بخندید مرد کهن
      ز ناخن فرو ریختش آب زرد
      همانا نجنبید زان‌ درد مرد
      biyafšārd čang-aš miyān-i suxan
      zi burnā bixandīd mard-i kuhan
      zi nāxun furō rēxt-aš āb-i zard
      hamānā na-jombīd z-ān dard mard
      He [Isfandiyār] pressed his [Rustam's] hand hard as he spoke,
      But the ancient man [Rustam] smiled at the youth;
      Yellow gall dripped down from his [Rustam's] fingernails,
      indeed, the man never jolted from the pain.
      (Classical Persian romanization)