bena

bena f (plural benas)

1. vein

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “bena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ISBN 978-84-7753-949-0

bena f (plural benes)

1. bandage

• embenar

• “bena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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 2-87772-237-6, page 72
• Ranko Matasović (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1, page 61

From Proto-Samic *peanëk.

bena

1. dog

• Entry 39158 in Álgu database

From Arabic بَنَى‎ (banā)

bena (imperfect jibni)

1. build

• benene

bena n

1. definite plural of ben

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːnɑ/

bēna m (nominative plural bēnan)

1. petitioner, requester

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

• mittbena

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

1. to comb the hair into a "bena"

From ben (“bone”).

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

1. (followed by ur) remove bones from a fish which is to be eaten
2. (followed by ut) to attack a problem; to start to untangle a logical mess