arni

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arni (plural arnis)

1. The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)

   Synonyms: Asian buffalo, Asiatic buffalo, wild Asian buffalo

   • 1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.‎^[1]:

     Besides these three species and the zebu, the yak, the gayal, and the arni (not to mention the buffalo or genus Bubalus) have been domesticated; making altogether seven species of Bos.

   • 1904, Arthur Erwin Brown, “The Zoology of North American Big Game”, in American Big Game in Its Haunts‎^[2]:

     In the arni of India they are enormously long.

• Wild water buffalo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bubalus arnee on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Bubalus arnee on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Rina, rani, Irân, Nair, rain, Îrân, Rain, NIRA, Iran, Īrān, Rian, ARIN, airn, RNAi, Rani, Irān, Arin

arni

1. dative singular of arinn

Internationalism; compare English arni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ɲi/
• Rhymes: -arɲi
• Syllabification: ar‧ni

arni m animal (indeclinable)

1. arni (Bubalus arnee)

• “arni”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

arni m (plural arnis)

1. arni; wild water buffalo; Asiatic buffalo (Bubalus arnee, a bovine of southeast Asia)

• “arni”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

• rni

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ərnu.

• (Nador) IPA^(key): [aːnɪ]

arni (verbal noun timarniwt or tamarniwt or tarnit or tarnut, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵔⵏⵉ) (transitive)

1. to add
2. to increase
3. to multiply

• Serhoual (2002)
• Abarrou (2024)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈarnɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈarni/

arni

1. third-person singular feminine of ar