ben

• IPA^(key): /bɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

From Middle English ben, bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Related to ban. More at boon.

• bene

ben (plural bens)

1. (obsolete) A prayer; a petition.

From Middle English ben, bene, variation of bin, binne (“within”), from Old English binnan (“within, in, inside of, into”), equivalent to be- +‎ in.

ben

1. (Scotland, Northern England) In, into.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 32:

     And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.

ben (not comparable)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Inside.

ben (comparative benner, superlative benmost)

1. Inner, interior.

• ben-end, ben-room

ben (plural bens)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).

• but and ben

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Probably representing a North African pronunciation of Arabic بَان‎ (bān, “ben tree”)

ben (plural bens)

1. A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
2. The winged seed of the ben tree.
3. The oil of the ben seed.

• (tree): drumstick tree, horseradish tree, moringa

• ben-nut

From Arabic بِن‎ (bin) and Hebrew בן‎ (ben, “son”).

• Ben
• bin (Arabic)

ben (uncountable)

1. (usually capitalised) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).

Borrowed from Scots ben, benn, from Scottish Gaelic beinn

ben (plural bens)

1. A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak.

UK C16. Probably from Latin bene or Italian bene.

ben (comparative benar, superlative benat)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) Alternative spelling of bene; good.
   • 1611, Middleton, Thomas, The Roaring Girle‎:

     A gage of ben Rom-bouse, / In a bousing-ken of Rom-vile, / Is benar than a Caster, / Pecke, pennam, lay, or popler, / Which we mill in deuse a vile.

     [paraphrase] A pot of good wine, / In a pub of London, / Is better than a cloak, / Meat, bread, milk, or porridge, / Which we steal in the countryside.

• EbN, NEB, NbE, Neb., neb

ben

1. big

ben

1. a big thing

• Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera, Lívia Kőrtvélyessy, Word-Formation in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey (2012)

• Rhymes: -en

ben

1. Alternative form of bé

The form ben is used when it precedes the adjective, adverb or verb form that it modifies, and bé is used in all other cases.

From Old Norse bein (“bone, leg”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

• IPA^(key): /beːn/, [b̥eːˀn]

ben n (singular definite benet, plural indefinite ben)

1. leg
2. bone

• “ben” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀩𑀳𑀺𑀡𑀻 (bahiṇī), from Sanskrit भगिनी (bhaginī). Cognate with Hindi बहन (bahan).

• IPA^(key): /ben̪/, /bɛn̪/

ben f

1. sister

• Matras, Yaron (2012) A Grammar of Domari (Mouton Grammar Library)‎, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 65

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• IPA^(key): /bɛn/

ben

1. first-person singular present indicative of zijn
2. (dialectal) imperative of zijn

Ben, as an imperative, is considered non-standard, the standard form being wees.

• (imperative) wees

• Taaladvies.net on ‘wees’ or ‘ben’

From Old Norse ben, from Proto-Germanic *banjō.

ben n (genitive singular bens, plural ben)

1. wound

ben f (genitive singular benjar, plural benjar)

1. wound

• benjardøgg
• benjarkolvur

Alternative form of bien

• IPA^(key): /bɛ̃/

ben

1. Abbreviation of eh bien. Well; uh

Clipping of bénard

• IPA^(key): /bɛn/

ben m (plural bens)

1. (slang) pants

• “ben” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin bene.

ben

1. well
2. properly, nicely

• mâl

ben

1. good

• bon

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ben, from Latin bene.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛŋ/

ben m (plural bens)

1. benefit; welfare
2. (in the plural) goods
3. good (the forces that are the enemy of evil)

• (benefit): beneficio
• (good): mal

ben

1. well

   Ben feito! ― Well done!

2. very; a lot

   Eche un rapaz ben espilido! ― He's a very smart young man!

• (well): mal

• bo

Borrowed from Italian bene, French bien, Spanish bien and Portuguese bem.

• IPA^(key): /ben/

ben (comparative melio, superlative le melio)

1. well

• ben que

From Latin bene.

ben

1. well

ben

1. Apocopic form of bene

   ben fatto ― well done

• ben altro

ben

1. Rōmaji transcription of べん

From Portuguese vir and Spanish venir .

ben

1. to come

ben ?

1. string, rope

• benik
• benk

• bend
• benî

From Latin bene.

ben (comparative miec)

1. well
2. properly

ben m (plural bens)

1. (especially in the plural) goods, property

ben

1. Nonstandard spelling of bēn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of běn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bèn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Old Irish ben, from Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

• IPA^(key): /bɛᵈn/

ben f (genitive singular mreih, plural mraane)

1. woman

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 ben”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

ben

1. Alternative form of been

• “bēn” listed in the Middle English Dictionary [2001]

From Old Norse bein, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

ben n (definite singular benet, indefinite plural ben, definite plural bena or benene)

1. a leg
2. a bone

• bein

• haleben
• menneskeben

• “ben” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *bainą.

bēn n

1. leg
2. bone

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: bêen
  • Dutch: been

• “bēn”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *bōniz. Cognate with Old Norse bón.

• IPA^(key): /beːn/

bēn f (nominative plural bēne or bēna)

1. prayer, praying
2. request, entreaty

• Middle English: bene
• English: bee

From Proto-Germanic *banjō. Cognate with Old Norse ben.

• IPA^(key): /ben/

ben f

1. Alternative form of benn

ben

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of bien

• IPA^(key): /bʲen/

From Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

ben f (genitive mná, nominative plural mná)

1. woman

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• banscál
• bé
• frac

• benacán m (“(little) woman”)

• Irish: bean
• Manx: ben
• Scottish Gaelic: bean

Ultimately from Hebrew בֵּן‎ (ben).

ben ?

1. son

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• macc

See the etymology of the main entry.

·ben

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of benaid

ben

1. second-person singular imperative of benaid

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 ben”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “benaid”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

From Proto-Germanic *banjō.

ben f (genitive benjar, plural benjar)

1. mortal wound
2. small bleeding wound

ben n

1. wound

• bani m (“bane”)
• benja (“to wound mortally”)

• ben in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Latin bene.

ben

1. well

• Catalan: bé, ben
• Occitan: ben

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “bene”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10, page 322

From Proto-Germanic *bainą. Cognate with Old Frisian bēn (West Frisian bien), Old English bān (English bone), Dutch been (“bone, leg”), Old High German bein (German Bein (“leg”)), Old Norse bein (Icelandic bein (“bone”)).

bēn n

1. bone

• Middle Low German: bēn
  • Low German: Been, Bein

From Old Norse bein, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

• IPA^(key): /beːn/

bēn n

1. bone
2. leg

• Swedish: ben

From Old English binnan.

ben (plural bens)

1. The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).

ben (comparative benner, superlative benmaist)

1. Inner, interior.

ben

1. Through, in, into (a dwelling).

   I went ben the room.

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic beinn.

ben (plural bens)

1. mountain, hill

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بڭ‎ (beñ).

ben m (Cyrillic spelling бен)

1. (regional) birthmark
2. (regional) mole
3. (regional) naevus

• madež

From Old Swedish bēn, from Old Norse bein, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːn/

ben n

1. (anatomy) Leg; a body part.
2. Leg; part of trousers which covers the legs.
3. The part of a piece furniture on which it stands.
4. (anatomy) Bone; any of the components of an endoskeleton.
5. (anatomy) Bone; the material of the endoskeleton

• ben in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

• IPA^(key): /bɛn/, /bæn/
• Hyphenation: ben

From Ottoman Turkish بن‎ (ben, “I”), from Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰢𐰤‎ (men), 𐰋𐰤‎ (ben, “I”), Karakhanid مَنْ‎ (men, “I”), Azerbaijani mən, Bashkir мин (min), Chuvash эпӗ (epĕ), Kazakh мен (men), Kyrgyz мен (men), Turkmen men.

Possibly related to Mongolian би (bi, “I”), Manchu ᠪᡳ (bi, “I”).[1]

ben

1. I

• It is one of the two words that have irregular dative case declension. (The other word is "sen").
• It is one of the two words that have irregular genitive case declension. (The other word is "biz").

ben (definite accusative beni, plural biz)

1. (psychology) ego

• bencil
• albeni
• benmerkezci

• -im
• biz
• bana
• benlik
• benli
• bensiz

From Ottoman Turkish بڭ‎ (beŋ, “mole”), from Proto-Turkic *beŋ (“mole on the face”).[2]

Cognate with Bashkir миң (miñ), Kyrgyz мең (meñ), Kazakh мең (meñ) Turkmen meň, Yakut мэҥ (meŋ). Also compare Mongolian мэнгэ (menge, “mole, birthmark”).

ben (definite accusative beni, plural benler)

1. birthmark, mole

• benli
• bensiz

• benek

• leke
• yama

From Latin bene.

ben

1. well

• benon

• bon

Borrowed from Latin bene.

• IPA^(key): [ben]

ben (nominative plural bens)

1. (sense of) well-being, welfare, being well, wellness

• IPA^(key): /bɛn/

ben

1. Soft mutation of pen.