See also: ثن, تن, پ.ن, ین, and ين

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Base form of اِبْن (ibn). From Proto-Semitic *bin-. Compare Hebrew בֵּן.

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Noun

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بْن (bnm

  1. Alternative form of اِبْن (ibn)
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Used after another noun (which necessarily ends in a vowel if case endings are preserved).

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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܒܽܘܢܳܐ (būnā), which, attested as “barley soaked in water”, underwent a meaning development in 14th-century Yemen due to brewages of sundry appetizing beverages, less likely in view of the pungent fish-sauce بُنّ (bunn), but from the picture of barley grains to the coffee bean in particular. Compare meaning transferrals in the spice-names قِزْح (qizḥ) and بِسْبَاس (bisbās), and خَنْدَرِيس (ḵandarīs, spelt; gruel) to “wine”, as قَهْوَة (qahwa, coffee) originally meant “wine”. This specific meaning strain—it was only generalized in Ethiopia to mean the berry, powder and decoct of coffee too—is confirmed by Ancient Greek βύνη (búnē, malt), a borrowing found in Late Antiquity’s Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis and Aëtius of Amida. The further origin can be a technical term restricted from the well-known Middle Iranian word for “base, grounds” found as Classical Persian بن (bun) and Old Armenian բուն (bun), also borrowed directly from Iranian in Omani Arabic بون (būn), compare the Iranianism reflected in Arabic دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy, lees, amurca).

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Noun

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بُنّ (bunnm (plural أَبْنَان (ʔabnān)) (usually uncountable)

  1. coffee beans, coffee
  2. coffee tree
  3. (obsolete) a fine strong fragrance
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Descendants
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  • Afar: bún, búun (Northern Afar), búna, buná (Southern Afar)
  • Amharic: ቡን (bunn)
  • Coptic: ⲡⲟⲛ (pon)
  • Gujarati: બૂંદ (bū̃d)
  • Harari: ቡን (bunn)
  • Tigre: ቡን (bun)
  • Tigrinya: ቡን (bun)
  • Ottoman Turkish: بن (bünn)
  • Swahili: buni
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Etymology 3

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Back-formation from بُنِّيّ (bunniyy, Labeobarbus bynni), a well-eaten fish of the highest frequency in the Nile.

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Noun

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بُنّ (bunnm

  1. (obsolete) brine, pickling-solution, a fish-dish from the salt water in which for example Labeobarbus bynni has been preserved.
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Etymology 4.1

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Apparently denominal from بَنَّة (banna, odour in particular from lodging-places due to cattle).

Verb

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بَنَّ (banna) I (non-past يَبِنُّ (yabinnu), verbal noun ?) (obsolete)

  1. to stop over or have a stay [with بِ (bi)]
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Etymology 4.2

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Noun

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بِنّ (binnm (obsolete)

  1. a place having a fetid odour
  2. layer of fat
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Etymology 4

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Verb

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بن (form I)

  1. بِنَّ (binna) /bin.na/: inflection of بَانَ (bāna):
    1. third-person feminine plural past active
    2. second-person feminine plural imperative
  2. بِنْ (bin) /bin/: second-person masculine singular imperative of بَانَ (bāna)

References

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  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 116
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “بن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 158b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “بن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 166
  • Landberg, Carlo, editor (1909), Études sur les dialectes de l'Arabie méridionale. Deuxième volume. Daṯînah. Deuxième partie[4] (in French), Leiden: Brill, pages 1062–1064
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “بن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[5], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 258a–b
  • Streck, Maximilian (1907) “Bemerkungen zu einigen arabischen Fischnamen”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[6] (in German), volume 61, page 638

Brokskat

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Noun

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بن (ban)

  1. village

Kalami

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Adjective

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بن (banm

  1. closed

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Turkic *ben (I).

Pronoun

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بن (ben)

  1. I
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Etymology 2

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From Arabic اِبْن (ibn, son).

Noun

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بن (bin) (plural بنی)

  1. son (only used at names, e.g. Ahmet bin Ali - “the son of Ali, Ahmed”)
    Synonym: اوغلی (oğlu)

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Pashto

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *hapáθniH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sapátniH (co-wife). Compare Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬥𐬍 (hapaθnī) and Sanskrit सपत्नी (sapatnī).

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Noun

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بن (bənf

  1. co-wife

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Persian

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (bwn' /⁠bun⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *buHnáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰudʰnás, from *bʰudʰmḗn.

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Readings
Classical reading? bun
Dari reading? bun
Iranian reading? bon
Tajik reading? bun

Noun

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بن (bon)

  1. bottom
  2. foundation
  3. root
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Etymology 2

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From late Middle Persian [script needed] (bwn' /⁠bun⁠/), from earlier [script needed] (wn' /⁠wan⁠/, tree; stock, stem) also present as ون (van, ash tree) and Classical Syriac ܒܰܢ (ban, terebinth).

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Readings
Classical reading? bun
Dari reading? bun
Iranian reading? bon
Tajik reading? bun

Noun

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بن (bon) (archaic)

  1. bush
  2. tree
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Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Arabic بِن (bin, son).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? bin
Dari reading? bin
Iranian reading? ben
Tajik reading? bin

Noun

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بن (ben)

  1. bin (in Arabic names)

Etymology 4

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

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بن (ben)

  1. Ben (the capital city of Ben County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran).
  2. Ben (a county of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran).

Etymology 5

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Borrowed from German Bonn.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Iranian reading? bon

Proper noun

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بن (bon)

  1. Bonn (a city in North Rhine-Westphalia; former capital city of Germany)

References

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  • Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28)‎[9], Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 129, from which apparently bn2”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Laufer, Berthold (1919) Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products (Fieldiana, Anthropology; 15), volume 3, Chicago: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, pages 248–249
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 200
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بن”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum[10] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 263

South Levantine Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic بُنّ (bunn).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /binn/, [bɪn]
  • Audio (Ramallah):(file)

Noun

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بنّ (binnm

  1. coffee beans
  2. ground coffee

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