# بنة
## Arabic
### Etymology

Apparently generalized from بُنّ (bunn) later glossed as “coffee-beans/plants; a fine strong fragrance” and explained by Classical Syriac ܒܽܘܢܳܐ (būnā, “barley soaked in water”) and Ancient Greek βύνη (búnē, “malt”), so originally developing an idea of something fermented, or otherwise regarding the associated meanings of “staying” or “lingering” and our connection to Proto-Iranian *buHnáh, Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰudʰnás (“ground”) one can also construct a basic idea of ground, base (note). Similarity to Proto-Slavic *vòňa (“stench”) is a coincidence.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ban.na/
* (Andalusi) IPA: /bin.na/

### Noun

بَنَّة • (banna) f (plural بِنَان (binān))
* (Classical Arabic) aroma, odour considered contranymously either pleasant or fetid, from foodstuff, clothing, or in lodging-places of cattle
** 577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], edited by José Pérez Lázaro, الْمَدْخَلُ إِلَى تَقْوِيمِ اللِسَانِ وَتَعْلِيمِ الْبَيَانِ (al-madḵalu ʔilā taqwīmi l-lisāni wataʕlīmi l-bayāni) [Introducción a la corrección del lenguaje y la enseñanza de la elocuencia] (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas; 6), volume II, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, page 253 Nr.80:ويقولون هذا طعام ليس له بَنَّة أي طِيبٌ. والبَنَّةُ عند العرب الرِّيحُ. تقول أَجِدُ في هذا الثّوب بَنَّةً من تفّاح أو سفرجل أو غير ذلك. والبَنَّةُ أيضاً رِيحُ مَرَابِضِ البَقَرِ والغَنَمِ.They say this food has no pleasant odour or scent. Odour is smell with the Arabs. You say I find in this garment smell of apples and quinces and other things. And odour is also smell of cow and sheep barns.

#### Derived terms

* بِنّ (binn, “a place having a fetid odour; layer of fat”)
* بَنَّ (banna, “to stop over or have a stay”)
* بَنَّنَ (bannana, “to tie to fatten; to give an odour to”)
* أَبَنَّ (ʔabanna, “to stick, to stay, to remain”)
* تَبَنَّنَ (tabannana, “to acquire an odour”)
* بَنِين (banīn, “prudent; constant; fat; savoury”)
* بُنَانَة (bunāna, “a place rich in plants or otherwise of agreeable odours”)

### References

* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 189
* Freytag, Georg (1830) “بنة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 158b
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “بنة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 166
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “بنة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 258

## Libyan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بَنَّة (banna, “smell”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /banːa/

### Noun

بنة (banna)
* taste
* (Eastern Libyan) smell

## Moroccan Arabic

* Root
* ب ن ن
* 2 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic بَنَّة (banna, “smell”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ban.na/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

بنة • (banna) f (plural بنات (bannāt))
* taste