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Arabic
Etymology
Related to ب ي ن (b-y-n).
Root
ب و ن • (b-w-n)
- related to distance by excellence
Derived terms
- Form I: بَانَ (bāna, “to excel, to surpass in virtues”)
- Verbal noun: بَوْن (bawn, “gap, distance, disparity”)
- Active participle: ?
- بَنَان (banān, “five fingers”)
- بَان (bān, “ben tree; Egyptian willow”)
- بِوَان (biwān, “tent pole”)
- بَوْنَة (bawna) and بَانَة (bāna, “distinction, disparity”)
References
- Freytag, Georg (1830) “ب و ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 174b
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ب و ن”, 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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 180b
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “ب و ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 278a-b
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ب و ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 102