bn

Abbreviation of English Bengali, from Classical Persian بَنْگَالَه (bangāla), from Middle Bengali বাঙ্গালা (baṅgala).

bn

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Bengali.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bengali terms

bn

1. (chiefly British, Commonwealth except Canada, Ireland) Abbreviation of billion.
   • 2007 December 5, Randeep Ramesh, “Speed limits rise as India falls in love with the car”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The £4bn expressways form a diamond linking Delhi with the country's three other largest cities, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, marking the beginning of more than £35bn of road projects.

• bn.
• bln, bln.

• mn (million)
• tn (trillion)

bn (not comparable)

1. Initialism of brand new.

• N.B., NB, n.b., nB, nb

Related to (and probably developed from) earlier nn (“not”).^[1] The spelling with b- may reflect a graphic phenomenon rather than a sound change. Compare the Late Egyptian development of bw from Earlier Egyptian nj.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: ben

 proclitic

1. (Late Egyptian) not; negates the adverbial sentence/first present, the third future, and the optative
2. (Late Egyptian) not; negates a nominal sentence
3. (Late Egyptian, with a following noun or pronoun) without; there not being any …

The negative constructions with this particle are isomorphic to the corresponding positive constructions without it; they are formed by simply prepending bn to the start of the clause. In the negated adverbial and nominal sentences, occasionally another negation particle, jwnꜣ, is used with bn, discontinuously following the negated element. In higher linguistic registers nn (“not”) is sometimes used instead of bn.

• Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, pages 113, 115, 117, 123–124, 140, 169–170

bn

1. abbreviation of bene

bn

1. (text messaging) abbreviation of bine (“well”)

bn m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. (text messaging) abbreviation of bine (“good”)

bn

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of bien

bn m or f (masculine and feminine plural bns)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of bien

bn

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of bien

bn

1. initialism of bao nhiêu