ben

1. (international standards)ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-3language code forBengali.

• IPA^(key):/bɛn/
• (pin–pen merger)IPA^(key):/bɪn/

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• Homophones:Ben;been(some accents);bin(pin–pen merger)
• Rhymes:-ɛn,-ɪn

FromMiddle Englishben,bene, fromOld Englishbēn(“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”), fromProto-Germanic*bōniz(“supplication”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-(“to say”). Related toban. More atboon.

• bene

ben (pluralbens)

1. (obsolete) Aprayer; apetition.

FromMiddle Englishben,bene, variation ofbin,binne(“within”), fromOld Englishbinnan(“within, in, inside of, into”), equivalent tobe- +‎in.

ben

1. (Scotland,Northern England)In,into.
   • 2008,James Kelman,Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published2009, page32:

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

ben (notcomparable)

1. (Scotland,Northern England)Inside.

ben (comparativebenner,superlativebenmost)

1. Inner,interior.

• ben-end,ben-room

ben (pluralbens)

1. (Scotland,Northern England) The innerroom of a two-roomcottage (as opposed to thebut); theben room.
   • 1972,George Mackay Brown,Greenvoe, Polygon, published2019, page25:

     Bert Kerston was awakened by a steady tap on theben window.

• but and ben

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

FromMiddle Englishbeen, fromOld French andMedieval Latin, probably from a North African pronunciation ofArabicبَان(bān,“ben tree”).

ben (pluralbens)

1. A tree,Moringa oleifera orhorseradish tree of Arabia and India, which producesoil of ben.
2. The wingedseed of the ben tree.
3. Theoil of the ben seed.

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

• ben-nut
• ben oil

FromArabicبِن(bin) andHebrewבן(ben,“son”).

• Ben
• bin(Arabic)

ben (uncountable)

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

Borrowed fromScotsben,benn, fromScottish Gaelicbeinn.

ben (pluralbens)

1. AScottish orIrish mountain or high peak.

• Ben Lomond
• Ben More
• Ben Nevis
• Ben Venue

c. 16th century. Probably fromLatinbene orItalianbene.

ben (comparativebenar,superlativebenat)

1. (obsolete,UK,thieves' cant)Alternative spelling ofbene;good.
   • 1611,Thomas Middleton,The Roaring Girle‎^[2]:

     A gage ofben Rom-bouse, / In a bousing-ken of Rom-vile, / Isbenar 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.

Shortening.

ben (pluralbens)

1. (UK,theater,slang,obsolete) Abenefit(performance to raise funds).
   • year?,The Catholic Literary Circular (page 75)

     In the Chronicles of the Stage, some curious particulars are given relating to Sir Henry Herbert and the well-known Sir William Davidson, by which we learn, amongst other things, that a “ben” or benefit at Drury Lane, two centuries ago, was worth a hundred pounds.

• John Camden Hotten (1873)The Slang Dictionary

ben (pluralbens)

1. (Ireland)Alternative form ofbin

• J. J. Hogan and Patrick C. O'Neill (1947) “A NORTH-COUNTY DUBLIN GLOSSARY”, inBéaloideas‎^[3], volume17, number1/2, An Cumann Le Béaloideas Eireann/Folklore of lreland Society, page264

• ben-joltram
• ben-shie

• EbN,NEB,NbE,Neb.,neb

ben

1. big

ben

1. abig thing

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

ben

1. bean

• Silvia Kouwenberg,Berbice Dutch Glossed Texts (2013)

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[ˈben]
• Rhymes:-en

ben

1. Alternative form ofbé

   Porteu un vestitben bonic. ―Wear avery pretty dress.

   Demà al matíben d'hora m'aixeco i viatjo a Milan. ―Tomorrow morningquite early I'll get up and travel to Milan.

• The formben is used when it precedes the adjective, adverb or verb form that it modifies, andbé is used in all other cases.

• bénne(Sette Comuni)

FromMiddle High Germanwenne,wanne, fromOld High Germanhwenne,hwanne, fromProto-West Germanic*hwannā, from*hwan, fromProto-Germanic*hwan(“when”). Cognate withGermanwenn,wann,Englishwhen.Doublet ofbenn(adverb), from the same Middle High German source.

ben

1. (Luserna)when

   Khåntamar khönben 'z tüata offe di pinakotèk? ―Can you tell mewhen the art gallery opens?

• “ben” inCimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

FromProto-Brythonic*bon, fromProto-Celtic*bonus (seeBretonBen-,Welshbôn). Found aspen in the placenamePentewan.

ben m (pluralbenyow)

1. base,foot
2. (of a tree)trunk,stump

Same source asbenyn. Cognate withEnglishqueen, among others.

ben f

1. woman

• Only found in the expressionhy ben and its derivatives.

• hy ben(“the other, another”)
• an eyl hy ben(“one another, mutual”)

• kila (masculine equivalent)

Frombè(“well”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɛn/

ben m

1. deceased

ben

1. Alternative form ofbè

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

FromOld Norsebein(“bone, leg”), fromProto-Germanic*bainą, cognate withEnglishbone,GermanBein.

• IPA^(key):/beːˀn/,[ˈb̥eˀn]

ben n (singular definitebenet,plural indefiniteben)

1. leg(a limb of a human or an animal used for walking; also, by analogy, the legs of a desk or a chair)

   Synonym:pusselanke(childish; joking)

2. bone(any part of the skeleton)
3. sinecure(a position that requires little to no work but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.)

• “ben” inDen Danske Ordbog

FromSauraseni Prakrit𑀩𑀳𑀺𑀡𑀻(bahiṇī), fromSanskritभगिनी(bhaginī). Cognate withHindiबहन(bahan).

• IPA^(key):/ben̪/,/bɛn̪/

ben f

1. sister

• Matras, Yaron (2012)A Grammar of Domari (Mouton Grammar Library)‎^[4], Walter de Gruyter,→ISBN, page65

FromMiddle Dutchbim, fromProto-Germanic*beuną.

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• Rhymes:-ɛn
• IPA^(key):/bɛn/

ben

1. inflection ofzijn:
   1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
   3. imperative

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

• (imperative)wees

• Skepi Creole Dutch:ben

• Taaladvies.net on ‘wees’ or ‘ben’

FromOld Norseben, fromProto-Germanic*banjō.

ben n (genitive singularbens, pluralben)

1. wound

ben f (genitive singularbenjar, pluralbenjar)

1. wound

• benjardøgg
• benjarkolvur

Alternative form ofbien

• IPA^(key):/bɛ̃/
• Rhymes:-ɛ̃

ben

1. (informal)Well;uh

   Synonym:bah

• ben voyons

Clipping ofbénard.

• IPA^(key):/bɛn/

ben m (pluralbens)

1. (slang)pants,trousers

• “ben”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

FromLatinbene.

ben

1. well
2. properly,nicely

• mâl

ben

1. good

• bon

• bem(reintegrationist)

FromOld Galician-Portugueseben, fromLatinbene.

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɛŋ/[ˈbɛŋ]
• Rhymes:-ɛŋ
• Hyphenation:ben

ben m (pluralbens)

1. benefit;welfare

   Synonym:beneficio

2. (in theplural)goods
3. good(the forces that are the enemy of evil)

   Antonym:mal

• bo

ben

1. well

   Antonym:mal

   Ben feito! ―Well done!

2. very;a lot;enough

   Eche un rapazben espilido! ―He's avery smart young man!

   • 1473, A. López Ferreiro, editor,Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page29:

     cando se ganou dos mouros a grande batalla da figeira en donde tamen perdin e me mataron o cabalo e eu sahin ben librado enpero ben ferido de hua saetada enno braço dereito que non a vin curada fasta pasadosben tres meses

     when the great Battle of the Figtree was won to the Moors, where I also lost —and they killed— my horse and I got out safe but badly injured of an arrow shot in the right arm, wound that I saw not cured untilmore than three months later

3. (followed byde or a contraction ofde)a lot (of)

   Bótalleben de zucre, sen medo! ―Adda lot of sugar, don't be shy!

4. plus, ormore,upwards
   • c.1295, R. Lorenzo, editor,La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page174:

     Et durou a guerra dessa uez ontre ellesbem dous ãnos, fazendosse todauia muyto mal os hũus aos outros, de guisa que, ante que sse aquella contenda fijnse, morrerõ y muytos

     And the war between them lasted that time for two yearsplus, making in every way a lot of harm the ones to the others, in wise that, before that conflict had ended, many died there

• bo

• “ben”, inDicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña:Royal Galician Academy,2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ben”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ben”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ben”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

Borrowed fromItalianbene,Frenchbien,Spanishbien andPortuguesebem.

• IPA^(key):/ben/

ben (comparativemelio,superlativele melio)

1. well

• ben que

FromLatinbene.

ben

1. well

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɛn/
• Hyphenation:bèn

ben (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form ofbene

   ben fatto ―well done

• ben altro

ben

1. Rōmaji transcription ofべん

FromPortuguesevir.

ben

1. tocome

FromLatinbene.

ben (comparativemiec)

1. well
2. properly

ben m (pluralbens)

1. (especially in theplural)goods,property

Akin toItalianbene, from Latin.

ben

1. well

ben

1. Nonstandard spelling ofbēn.
2. Nonstandard spelling ofběn.
3. Nonstandard spelling ofbèn.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

FromOld Irishben, fromProto-Celtic*benā, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷḗn.

• IPA^(key):/ben/,[bɛᵈn]

ben f (genitive singularmreih,pluralmraane)

1. woman

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ben”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

ben

1. Alternative form ofbeen

• “bēn” listed in theMiddle English Dictionary [2001]

• Rhymes:-ɛn

ben ?

1. string,rope

• benik
• benk

• bend
• benî

FromDanishben, fromOld Norsebein, fromProto-Germanic*bainą.

ben n (definite singularbenet,indefinite pluralben,definite pluralbenaorbenene)

1. aleg
2. abone

• bein

• haleben
• menneskeben

• “ben” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromOld Occitanben, fromLatinbene.

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ben

1. well

• benlèu

ben m (pluralbens)

1. good,possession

FromProto-Germanic*bainą.

bēn n

1. leg
2. bone

• Middle Dutch:bêen
  • Dutch:been
    • Afrikaans:been
    • Berbice Creole Dutch:been
    • Jersey Dutch:beîn
    • Negerhollands:been
    • → Lokono:bèna
  • Limburgish:bein

• “bēn”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek,2012

FromProto-Germanic*bōniz. Cognate withOld Norsebón.

• IPA^(key):/beːn/

bēn f (nominative pluralbēneorbēna)

1. prayer,praying
2. request,entreaty
3. boon
   • late 10th century,Ælfric,"Saint Basilius, Bishop"

     Bide nu æt gode þæt ic grecisc cunne. Þa cwæþ se biscop him to, þu bæde ofer mine mæðe ac uton swa þeah biddan þasbena æt gode.

     Pray now to God that I may know Greek. Pray now to God that I may know Greek. Then said the Bishop to him, 'Thou hast asked beyond my power, but let us, nevertheless, ask thisboon of God.'

Strongi-stem:

• Middle English:ben,bene
  • English:ben,bene
    • ⇒ English:bee
  • ⇒ Scots:been-hook,been-plough

FromProto-Germanic*banjō. Cognate withOld Norseben.

• IPA^(key):/ben/

ben f

1. Alternative form ofbenn

ben

1. (Anglo-Norman)Alternative form ofbien

FromProto-West Germanic*bain, fromProto-Germanic*bainą. Cognates includeOld Englishbān,Old Saxonbēn andOld Dutchbēn.

• IPA^(key):/ˈbeːn/,[ˈbɛːn]

bēn n

1. bone
2. leg

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum:bian

  Goesharde:biin

  Halligen:bian

  Heligoland:Bean

  Mooring:biinj

  Sylt:Biin

  Wiedingharde:biin

• Saterland Frisian:Been
• West Frisian:bien

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009)An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company,→ISBN

• IPA^(key):/bʲen/

FromProto-Celtic*benā, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷḗn.

ben f (genitivemná,nominative pluralmná)

1. woman

   Synonyms:banscál,bé,frac

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.31^c7

     arna érbarthar, “Ó chretsit, nín·tá airli armban”

     lest it be said, “Since they believed, we do not have management (?) of ourwomen”

2. wife

   Synonym:séitig

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.22^c10

     Is bés trá dosom aní-siu cosc innamban i tossug et a tabairt fo chumacte a feir, armbat irlamu de ind ḟir fo chumacte Dǽi, co·mbí íarum coscitir ind ḟir et do·airbertar fo réir Dǽ.

     This, then, is a custom of his, to correct the wives at first and to bring them under the power of their husbands, so that the husbands may be the readier under God’s power, so that afterwards the husbands are corrected and bowed down in subjection to God.

• ban-

• Middle Irish:ben
  • Irish:bean
  • Manx:ben
  • Scottish Gaelic:bean
• ⇒ Middle Irish:benagán

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

·ben

1. third-personsingularpresentindicativeconjunct ofbenaid

ben

1. second-personsingularimperative ofbenaid

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ben”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940)D. A. Binchy andOsborn Bergin, transl.,A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,→ISBN,§ 291, page184; reprinted2017

FromProto-Germanic*banjō.

ben f (genitivebenjar,pluralbenjar)

1. mortalwound
2. smallbleedingwound

ben n

1. wound

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

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ben”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

FromLatinbene.

ben

1. well

• Occitan:ben

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “bene”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes1: A–B,page322

FromProto-West Germanic*bain.

bēn n

1. bone

• Middle Low German:bên
  • Low German:Been,Bein
  • Plautdietsch:Been

• ᛒᚽᚿ(Runic)

FromOld Norsebein, fromProto-Germanic*bainą.

• IPA^(key):/beːn/

bēn n

1. bone
2. leg

• Swedish:ben

FromOld Englishbinnan.

ben

1. through,in,into,inside (a dwelling).

   A gaed ben the chaumer.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Come awah ben, hen.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

ben (comparativebenner,superlativebenmaist)

1. inner,interior.

ben (pluralbens)

1. The innerroom of a two-roomhut orshack (as opposed to thebut).

Borrowed fromScottish Gaelicbeinn.

ben (pluralbens)

1. mountain,hill

• “ben,adv.”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC, retrieved12 June 2024, reproduced fromWilliam A[lexander] Craigie,A[dam] J[ack] Aitken[et al.], editors,A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press, 1931–2002,→OCLC.
• “ben,adv., prep., adj., n.1.”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC, retrieved12 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors,The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh:Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976,→OCLC.
• “ben,n.3.”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC, retrieved12 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors,The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh:Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976,→OCLC.

Borrowed fromOttoman Turkishبك(beñ).

ben m (Cyrillic spellingбен)

1. (regional)birthmark,mole,naevus

   Synonym:madež

• “ben”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025
• “ben”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025
• “ben”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025

FromEnglishbeen.

• IPA^(key):/ˈbeŋ/,/ˈben/,[ˈbɪ̞ŋ],[ˈbe̝ŋ]

ben

1. Verbal marker for the past tense.

This marker can be combined with the markerssa oro for the future tense ande for the progressive aspect, in which case the order, if all are used, is that ofben sa/o e. Some examples:

• mi ben waka: “I had walked”.
• mi ben e waka: “I was walking”.
• mi ben sa waka: “I would walk”.
• mi ben sa e waka: “I would have been walking”.

• bo

FromOld Swedishbēn, fromOld Norsebein, fromProto-Germanic*bainą.

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• IPA^(key):/ˈbeːn/

ben n

1. (anatomy)leg; abody part
2. leg; part of trousers which covers the legs
3. the part of a piecefurniture on which it stands
4. (anatomy)bone; any of the components of anendoskeleton
5. (anatomy)bone; the material of the endoskeleton

• ben inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• ben inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ben inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

• (Thạch An –Tràng Định)IPA^(key):[ɓɛn˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh)IPA^(key):[ɓɛn˦]

ben

1. betelcase

ben (扁)

1. pack;bundle

   ben khẩu nâng ―onebundle of rice

   ben da ―pack of medicine

ben (扁)

1. towrap around

   Ben đảy pác khêm bấuben đảy pác cần.

   You canwrap up a needlestick but you can'twrap up a person's mouth.

• ben boóc

(Classifier:ăn)ben

1. weir

   ngắtben ―to stretch theweir

   nằngben ―to wait for fish at theweir

• Lương Bèn (2011)Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[5][6] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor,Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[7] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910)Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[8] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

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

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Inherited fromOttoman Turkishبَنْ(ban/⁠ben⁠/,“I”), fromOld Anatolian Turkishبن(/⁠bän⁠/,“I”), fromProto-Common Turkic*bän(“I”), fromProto-Turkic*ben-(“me”),oblique of*be(“I”).^[1][2]

Cognate withAzerbaijanimən,Turkmenmen;Uzbekmen,Uyghurمەن(men),Karakhanidمَنْ(man/⁠män⁠/,“I”);Crimean Tatarmen,Armeno-Kipchakմեն(men),Tatarмин(min),Bashkirмин(min),Kazakhмен(men),Kyrgyzмен(men);Old Turkic𐰋𐰤(b²n²/⁠bän⁠/,“I”),𐰢𐰤(mn²/⁠män⁠/);Chuvashэпӗ(ep̬ĕ); etc.

Possibly related toMongolianᠪᠢ(bi,“I”) /би(bi),Evenkiбӣ(bī),Manchuᠪᡳ(bi,“I”).^[3]

ben

1. I,me

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

ben (definite accusativebeni,pluralbiz)

1. (psychology)ego

FromOttoman Turkishبك(beñ,“mole”), fromProto-Turkic*beŋ(“mole on the face”).^[4]

Cognate withBashkirмиң(miñ),Kyrgyzмең(meŋ),Kazakhмең(meñ)Turkmenmeň,Yakutмэҥ(meñ).

Also compareMongolianмэнгэ(menge,“mole, birthmark”).(Canthis⁽⁺⁾ etymology besourced?)

ben (definite accusativebeni,pluralbenler)

1. birthmark,mole

• benli
• bensiz

• benek

• leke
• yama

FromLatinbene.

ben

1. well

• benon

• bon

• (Hà Nội)IPA^(key):[ʔɓɛn˧˧]
• (Huế)IPA^(key):[ʔɓɛŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon)IPA^(key):[ʔɓɛŋ˧˧]

FromFrenchbenne.

ben

1. acabin

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

ben

1. (Southern Vietnam) to becomparable

   Synonym:bì

   Ai thong thả, trâu nào ben được ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Borrowed fromLatinbene.

• IPA^(key):[ben]

ben (nominative pluralbens)

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

• IPA^(key):/bɛn/

FromMiddle Welshbenn, fromProto-Brythonic*benn, fromProto-Celtic*bend(n)ā (whence Latinbenna), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰendʰ-(“to bind”).

ben f (pluralbenni)

1. (transport,archaic)cart,wagon

• men

ben

1. Soft mutation ofpen(“head”).