bena

Inherited from Latin vēna.

bena f (plural benas)

1. superseded spelling of vena

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

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈbə.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbe.na]

bena f (plural benes)

1. bandage

• embenar

• “bena”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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)).

• IPA^(key): /benaː/

benā f

1. woman
2. wife

• 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

From Proto-Samic *peanëk.

bena

1. dog

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Arabic بَنَى (banā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.na/

bena (imperfect jibni, past participle mibni)

1. to build
   • 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:

     Għax meta missieri kien jibni xi gallinar, jew xi xatba, jew xi kannizzata, qatt ma kien jixtri xejn, iżda jlaqqat u jillapazza b’dak li jsib. Imma jiena ma ridtx għarix mibni bl-imbarazz, iżda kamp sabiħ u pulit u b’saħħtu.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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

• benene

bena n

1. definite plural of ben

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeː.nɑ/

bēna m (nominative plural bēnan)

1. petitioner, requester

Weak:

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

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

• mittbena
• sidbena

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

1. to part the hair

From ben (“bone”).

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

bena

1. (dialectal) definite plural of ben

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

• bane