béarnais
French, noun
béarnais is spelled B-É-A-R-N-A-I-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Béarnais is a French masculine noun meaning “the southern French dialect of the above Béarn region, a form of Gascon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Béarnais is a different word: “an inhabitant or descendant of the population of the Béarn region in…”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dialecte de la langue d’oc, variante du gascon”.
What does béarnais mean in English?
adjective
- 1
of Béarn (the southern French region in the Pyrenees)
noun
- 1
masculinethe southern French dialect of the above Béarn region, a form of Gascon
noun
- 1
femininemasculinean inhabitant or descendant of the population of the Béarn region in the French Pyrenees
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif au Béarn. 2. Relatif à Béarn, municipalité québécoise.
noun: 1. Dialecte de la langue d’oc, variante du gascon.
noun: 1. Habitant du Béarn. 2. Habitant de Béarn, municipalité québécoise ^([1]).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of béarnais
- béarnaise feminine
- béarnaises feminine plural
- Béarnaise feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is béarnais in French?
béarnais appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).