Baarn
- Amunicipality and town inUtrecht province,Netherlands.
First attested asbarne in 1308. The toponym is cognate toMiddle Dutchbernen(“burn”) andberne(“fuel”).
Popular etymology holds that the city is named afterVerona, but this origin story of the name is not backed up by the oldest attestations of the toponym.
- IPA(key): /baːrn/,/ˈbaː.rən/
- Hyphenation:Baarn
- Rhymes:-aːrn
Baarn n
- A city andmunicipality ofUtrecht,Netherlands
- Synonym:Het Groene Graf(nickname)
- Meronyms:Eembrugge,Lage Vuursche,Soestdijk
- van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “baarn”, inNederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl,→ISBN