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  • I understand that some Venit words are still used on the island instead of their Greek or Turkish equivalents: an example is "piron" for fork (Italian forchetta) which is "biruni" in Cyprus.

    Venetian Dialect 2004

  • A third indigenous dairy product is biruni, also called leben-gedim, which is a fermented unchurned milk ripened for up to 10 years!

    1 Upgrading Traditional Biotechnological Processes 1992

  • I guess I came back to the oriental concept whereby ou have clothes for the inside and clothes for outside. (pay-jameh? biruni andaruni)

    Sputzele's Enchanted World Adora Bell 2010

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