# benne
## English
### Etymology

From Malay bene, or possibly from Wolof or Eastern Maninkakan.

### Noun

benne (uncountable)
* (chiefly attributive) Sesame.
    benne oil; benne seed
** 2003, Carole Marsh, The Kitchen House: How Yesterday's Black Women Created Today's Most Popular & Famous American Foods!, page 15:Benne (sesame) seeds were secretly brought to America on the slave ships by black women who had used them in their native cooking. Benne seed cookies and candy were made by black cooks in Charleston and other lowcountry South Carolina locations.
** 2010, Frederick C. Knight, Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650—1850, page 62:For example, Rosanna Williams recounted that her African-born father would "plant mostly benne and rice." Emma Hunter also remembered that her grandmother planted benne.
** 2013, David S. Shields, “Chapter 3: Prospecting for Oil”, in John T. Edge, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Ted Ownby, editors, The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South, page 65:A window on the small-scale world of sesame oil production and benne cake livestock feeding is found in the pages of Thomas Walter Peyre's plantation journal (1834–59) at the South Carolina Historical Society. […] African Anerican farming of benne can be imputed only by anecdotal reports, yet numerous records attest to benne’s importance in the slave diet. Indeed, a complex benne cookery adapted from African practices was recorded.

## French
### Alternative forms

* banne (with deviating meaning development)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin benna, from Gaulish bennā.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɛn/
* Rhymes: -ɛn

### Noun

benne f (plural bennes)
* bin, skip
    benne à ordures ― garbage skip
* dump truck
* barrow, carrying basket
* cable car, telecabin

### Further reading

* “benne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German Low German
### Adverb

benne
* (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) inside

### See also

* Plautdietsch: benna

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From the adverb benn +‎ -e (possessive suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɛnːɛ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ben‧ne
* Rhymes: -nɛ

### Pronoun

benne
* inside someone or something, in him/her/it, him/her/it
    A: Itt van egy doboz. B: Mi van benne? ― A: Here is a box. B: What’s in it?
    Nem bíznak benne. ― They don’t trust her.
    Nincs benne harag. ― He doesn’t have any anger in him.
* (used with van, colloquial) to be game, ready, willing (to participate or open to some deal or agreement)

#### Derived terms

* benne van a korban
* van benne valami

#### Related terms

* -ban / -ben
* -ba / -be
* be → be-
* bel-
* bele (belé, beléje)
* -beli (-béli)
* beljebb (bellebb)
* bellebbez (beljebbez)
* belőle
* belső (benső)
* belül (belől, bévül)
* benne
* bennünket, -eteket
* bent (benn)
* bél (and archaic bel)
* -ból / -ből

### See also

* Appendix:Hungarian pronouns
$^1$Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise. Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All Hungarian pronouns

### References

* ↑ Eőry, Vilma. Értelmező szótár+ (“Explanatory Dictionary Plus”). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2007. →ISBN

### Further reading

* benne in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* benne in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɛn.ne/
* Rhymes: -ɛnne
* Hyphenation: bèn‧ne

### Noun

benne f
* plural of benna

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈben.ne/

### Noun

benne
* inflection of benn:
** accusative/genitive/dative singular
** nominative/accusative plural