# bena
## Aragonese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin vēna.

### Noun

bena f (plural benas)
* Superseded spelling of vena.

### References

* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “bena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *binda (compare German Binde), from *bindan (“to bind”). Doublet of banda, a loanword through French.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈbɛ.nə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈbə.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈbe.na]

### Noun

bena f (plural benes)
* bandage

#### Derived terms

* embenar

#### Further reading

* “bena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “bena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Gaulish
### Etymology

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)).

### Pronunciation

IPA: /benaː/

### Noun

benā f
* woman
* wife

#### Declension

$^1$ early forms, $^2$ late forms :

### References

* Xavier Delamarre (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, page 72
* Ranko Matasović (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, →ISBN, page 61

## Lule Sami
### Etymology

From Proto-Samic *peanëk.

### Noun

bena
* dog

#### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Maltese

* Root
* b-n-j
* 5 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic بَنَى (banā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɛ.na/

### Verb

bena (imperfect jibni, past participle mibni)
* to build
** 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:Għax meta missieri kien jibni xi gallinar, jew xi xatba, jew xi kannizzata, qatt ma kien jixtri xejn, iżda jlaqqat u jillapazza b’dak li jsib. Imma jiena ma ridtx għarix mibni bl-imbarazz, iżda kamp sabiħ u pulit u b’saħħtu.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* to set up, to stack
* to compose (music)

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of bena :
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| perfect | m | bnejt | bnejt | bena | bnejna | bnejtu | bnew |
| perfect | f | bnejt | bnejt | bniet | bnejna | bnejtu | bnew |
| imperfect | m | nibni | tibni | jibni | nibnu | tibnu | jibnu |
| imperfect | f | nibni | tibni | tibni | nibnu | tibnu | jibnu |
| imperative | | | ibni | | | ibnu | |

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* benene

### Noun

bena n
* definite plural of ben

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbeː.nɑ/

### Noun

bēna m (nominative plural bēnan)
* petitioner, requester

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

bena c
* 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; a (US) part

##### Derived terms

* mittbena
* sidbena

#### Verb

bena (present benar, preterite benade, supine benat, imperative bena)
* to part the hair

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From ben (“bone”).

#### Verb

bena (present benar, preterite benade, supine benat, imperative bena)
* (followed by ur) to debone a fish which is to be eaten
* (followed by ut) to attack a problem; to start to untangle a logical mess

##### Conjugation
#### Noun

bena
* (dialectal) definite plural of ben

### References

* bena in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bena in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bena in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* bane