bena

Inherited from Latin vēna.

bena f (plural benas)

1. vein

• 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): (Valencian) [ˈbe.na]

bena f (plural benes)

1. bandage

• embenar

• “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.

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, 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
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

(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