bena

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vēna.

Noun

bena f (plural benas)

1. vein

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “bena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *binda (compare German Binde), from *bindan (“to bind”). Doublet of banda, a loanword through French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

bena f (plural benes)

1. bandage

Derived terms

• embenar

Further reading

• “bena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Gaulish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn. Akin to Old Irish ben (Irish bean (“woman”)), Welsh benyw (“woman”), Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, female, wife”) (Greek γυναίκα (gynaíka, “woman, wife”), English -gyny), Old English cwene (“woman”) (English queen), Old East Slavic жена (žena, “woman, wife”) (Russian жена (žena)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /benaː/

Noun

benā f

1. woman
2. wife

Declension

References

• Xavier Delamarre (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, page 72
• Ranko Matasović (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, →ISBN, page 61

Lule Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *peanëk.

Noun

bena

1. dog

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بَنَى (banā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.na/

Verb

bena (imperfect jibni, past participle mibni)

1. to build
2. to set up, to stack
3. to compose (music)

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• benene

Noun

bena n

1. definite plural of ben

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeː.nɑ/

Noun

bēna m (nominative plural bēnan)

1. petitioner, requester

Declension

Swedish

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bena c

1. parting, a way of combing hair in which a line is formed, the hair to the right of which is combed to the right, and the hair to the left is combed to the left; the line so formed; a (US) part

Declension

Derived terms

• mittbena
• sidbena

Verb

bena (present benar, preterite benade, supine benat, imperative bena)

1. to part the hair

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From ben (“bone”).

Verb

bena (present benar, preterite benade, supine benat, imperative bena)

1. (followed by ur) to debone a fish which is to be eaten
2. (followed by ut) to attack a problem; to start to untangle a logical mess

Conjugation

Noun

bena

1. (dialectal) definite plural of ben

References

• bena in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bena in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bena in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• bane