beni

Borrowed from French bénir. Related to bona.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbeni]
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• Rhymes: -eni
• Hyphenation: be‧ni

beni (present benas, past benis, future benos, conditional benus, volitive benu)

1. to bless

   Antonym: malbeni

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.ni/
• Rhymes: -ɛni
• Hyphenation: bè‧ni

beni m

1. plural of bene
2. property

• bine

beni

1. Rōmaji transcription of べに

beni

1. water

• Intelligibility Survey of Biseni, Okordia & Oruma Lects, in Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages: A Festschrift (2016)

From Proto-Germanic *banjō. Cognate with Old English benn, Old Norse ben (Norwegian ben).

beni f

1. wound; mortal injury

• bennian
• bano

beni

1. water

• Intelligibility Survey of Biseni, Okordia & Oruma Lects, in Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages: A Festschrift (2016)

From Latin bene (“well”). Compare Italian bene.

beni

1. (Campidanese) well

• bè (apocopic)

From Latin bene (“well”), from Old Latin *duenēd, from duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛni/

beni m (invariable)

1. good
2. sake, good
3. (usually in the plural) good, property, possession, belonging, asset

• Ugo Solinas (2016) “bèni”, in Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 1, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 240
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “bene/1”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• nebi

From Latin bene.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.ni/
• Hyphenation: bè‧ni

beni

1. well

• mali
• malamenti

beni m (plural beni)

1. good

• mali

• bonu / buonu

From English bend.

beni

1. bend

   Synonym: boktu

beni

1. to bend

   Synonym: boigi

2. to make a turn (change direction)

beni

1. bent, crooked, curved (not straight)

• IPA^(key): /beni/
• Hyphenation: be‧ni

beni

1. me