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.
   • 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 91:

     “I caught only a glimpse of an Arab in a dark-blue burnoose and white turban,” replied Tarzan.

Derived terms

• burnoosed

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 Finnish: burnuusi (fi) 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