bane

• IPA^(key): /beɪn/
• Hyphenation: bane
• Rhymes: -eɪn

From Middle English bane, from Old English bana, from Proto-Germanic *banô (compare Old High German bano (“death”), Icelandic bani (“bane, death”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-on-, from the o-grade of *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”).

bane (countable and uncountable, plural banes)

1. A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse.

   the bane of my existence

   • Herbert

     Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.

2. (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
3. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
4. (obsolete) Destruction; death.
   • Milton

     The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane.

5. A disease of sheep; the rot.

• (affliction or curse): boon

• Austrian leopard's bane (Doronicum austriacum)
• common dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)
• dog bane (Plectranthus ornatus)
• leopard's bane (Doronicum orientale)
• baneberry (Actaea spp.)
• baneful
• boon and bane
• boon or bane
• wolfsbane (Aconitum spp.)

bane (third-person singular simple present banes, present participle baning, simple past and past participle baned)

1. (transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
2. (transitive) To be the bane of.

From Middle English ban (northern dialect), from Old English bān.

bane (plural banes)

1. (chiefly Scotland) bone

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• Bean, Bena, bean, nabe

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bane

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of banen

bane

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばね

From Old Irish bán, from Proto-Celtic *bānos (“white”).

bane (plural baney, comparative baney)

1. white, blank, pallid

   Er cabbyl bane va mee. ― My mount was a white horse.

   Haink daah bane yn aggle er. ― He blanched with fear.

2. fair, blonde

   Shen Illiam Bane. ― That's fair-haired William.

3. fallow

   Faag y magher bane. ― Leave the field lea.

• “bane” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Old Dutch *bana, from Proto-Germanic *banō.

bāne f

1. open field, battlefield
2. lane, track (for playing balls)
3. road, way, path

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: baan

From Old Dutch *bano, from Proto-Germanic *banô.

bāne f or m

1. harm, pain

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “bane (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “bane (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English bana, in turn from Proto-Germanic *banô.

• ban

• IPA^(key): /baːn(ə)/

bane (plural banes)

1. murderer, slayer
2. bane, destroyer

• English: bane

From Old English bān.

bane (plural banes)

1. Alternative form of bon

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German Bahn

bane m (definite singular banen, indefinite plural baner, definite plural banene)

1. a trajectory
2. a railway line
3. a sports field
4. a racing track
5. orbit (of a satellite, including the moon)

• (orbit): omløpsbane

From Old Norse bani

bane m (definite singular banen, indefinite plural baner, definite plural banene)

1. death (by murder)

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German bahnen.

bane (imperative ban, present tense baner, passive banes, simple past bana or banet or bante, past participle bana or banet or bant, present participle banende)

1. to pave, as in

   bane vei for - pave the way for

• “bane” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German Bahn

bane m or f (definite singular banen or bana, indefinite plural banar or baner, definite plural banane or banene)

1. a trajectory
2. a railway line
3. a sports field
4. a racing track
5. orbit (of a satellite, including the moon)

From Old Norse bani

bane m (definite singular banen, indefinite plural banar, definite plural banane)

1. death (by murder)

From Middle Low German bane

• bana

bane (present tense banar, past tense bana, past participle bana, passive infinitive banast, present participle banande, imperative ban/bane)

1. to pave, as in

   bane veg for - pave the way for

• “bane” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old English bān, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

• IPA^(key): [ben]
• (Mid Northern Scots) IPA^(key): [bin], [bein]

bane (plural banes)

1. (anatomy) bone, limb

bane

1. bone

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)