بَرْنِىٌّ

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بَرْنِىٌّ A sort of dates, well known, the best of dates, or of the best of dates, red, intermixed, or tinged, with yellow, having much لِحَآء [i. e. flesh, or pulp], and very sweet, or yellow, and round: n. un. with ة: it is an arabicized word, originally بَرْنِيكْ, i. e. good, or excellent, fruit: accord. to AHn, of Persian origin, i. e., بَارْنِىْ; بار meaning fruit, and نى denoting egregiousness: accord. to Suh, a foreign, or Persian, word, meaning blessed [or good or excellent] fruit; بَرٌ meaning fruit; and هِنِى, good or excellent [or wholesome]: the Arabs introduced it into their language: or, accord. to the Moajam of El-Bekree, it is from بَرْنٌ, the name of a town, or village. It is converted by a rájiz into بَرْنِجّ; the double ى being changed into [double] ج.
2 You say also نَخْلٌ بَرْنِىٌّ and نَخْلَةٌ بَرْنِيَّةٌ [Palm-trees, and a palm-tree, of which the dates are of the sort described above].

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