Proto-Semitic root
*bVn-
‘build’ 1, ‘create’ 2
di Mino’s gloss: to build; builder, building; create
Record 649 ↗ · SED semet 634 · Basis: SED
In Linear A3 entries
Reflexes18 languages
East Semitic1
- Akkadianbanû 1, 2
Northwest Semitic11
- Mandaic Aramaicbna 1
- Ugariticbny, bnw 1
- Phoenicianbny 1 (T 49)mbnt 1 (T 165)gloss withheld
- Hebrewbny 1
- Amoritebny 1yabnî, yibnî, yabannî (Buck 2019, 325)gloss withheld
- Aramaicbny 1 OAram bny, Aram (Emp, Nab) bnh, bnʔ, (Palm) bnʔ 1 (DNWSI 173) (OffAr, Palm) bnyn 1 (DNWSI 178)gloss withheld
- Punicbnʾ, bʿn, bʾn (T 49)Neo-Punic hbnʾ 1 (Krahmalkov 104)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicbnā 'buildedify, restore, exhort' (Payne Smith 48)
- CanaaniteAmm. bnh (DNWSI 174)Moab bnh (DNWSI 174)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicbenaʾ (T 49)
- Biblical Aramaicbny 1 (HALOT 139)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicbny [-i-] 1, 2
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic bny (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 61)bnyt 1Dadanitic bny 1Hismaic bny 1Hasaitic bny 1 (Al-Jallad 2026, 29)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South Arabianbny 1Sab bny (SD 29, 30; Biella 48; Sabaweb lemma 3947)Qat. bny 1 (Ricks 1982 s.v. bny)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian3
- Mehribenû 1
- Soqotribéne 1
- Jibbalibené 1
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.