# بان
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

بَانَ • (bāna) I (non-past يَبِينُ (yabīnu), verbal noun بَيَان (bayān))
* to separate, to become distinct, to sunder
* to be or become evident, to come out, to be or become clearly visible by way of separation

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

بَانَ • (bāna) I (non-past يَبِينُ (yabīnu), verbal noun بَيْن (bayn) or بَيْنُونَة (baynūna))
* (intransitive, construed with مِن (min)) to part, to become separated (from)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

Derived from the active participle of بَنَى (banā, “to build, to erect, to construct”).

#### Noun

بَانٍ • (bānin) m (construct state بَانِي (bānī), dual بَانِيَانِ (bāniyāni), plural بَانُونَ (bānūna) or بُنَاة (bunāh), feminine بَانِيَة (bāniya))
* builder

##### Synonyms

* بَنَّاء (bannāʔ)

### Etymology 3

From ب و ن (b w n), as also بَنَان (banān, “finger”), a reference to the fruit or branch shape, known for their elegance in Arabic poetry.

#### Noun

بَان • (bān) m (collective, singulative بَانَة f (bāna))
* ben tree, horseradish tree (the Moringa oleifera of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben)
** a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات [ʿajāʾib al-maḵlūqāt wa-ḡarāʾib al-mawjūdāt]‎, Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1849, page 249:بان شجرة معروفة لها ثمرة حبّها أكبر من الحمص مائل إلى البياض طيب الرائحة وله لبّ دهني قال الشيخ الرئيس إنه ينفع من البرص والكلف والبهق وآثار القروح وينفع من الثآليل أيضا في المراهم وطبخه ينفع من وجع الأسنان مضمضة وقال غيره ينفع من الجرب ويقطع الرعاف.The ben is a well-known tree with a fruit the grains of which are larger than chickpeas with a tendency towards white and a nice smell and an oily pulp about which Šayḵ ar-Raʾīs says that it helps against leprosy and melasmata and vitiligo and traces of ulcers and it helps against warts, too, and the salves and decocts applied by bandage are useful against toothache, and another author said it relives scabies and staunches nosebleed.
* Egyptian willow (Salix aegyptiaca L.)

##### Declension
### Etymology 4

From Ottoman Turkish بان (ban), from Proto-Slavic *banъ.

#### Noun

بَان • (bān) m
* ban, a title in the Southeastern Europe

##### Declension
## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بَانَ (bāna)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːn/

### Verb

بان • (bān) I (active participle باين (bāyin))
* (chiefly figurative) to become obvious, clear, evident
    وبان الحق. ― bān il-ḥaʔ ― The truth is now clear

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Related terms

* باين (bāyin, “obvious”)
* بين (bayyin, “transitive causative: to make obvious, evident”)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *banъ.

#### Noun

بان • (ban)
* ban (title)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: ban
* → Arabic: بَان (bān)

### Etymology 2

From Persian ـبان (-bân).

#### Noun

بان • (-ban)
* (in compounds) keeper, tender, ward

### Etymology 3

From Arabic بَان (bān).

#### Noun

بان • (ban)
* ben tree, horseradish tree (the Moringa oleifera of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben)
* Egyptian willow (Salix aegyptiaca L.)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: ban

### Etymology 4

From earlier باڭ (bañ), from Persian بنگ (bang, “henbane”).

#### Noun

بان • (ban)
* henbane (Hyoscyamus gen. et spp.)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: ban

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [bɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bɑːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [bɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [bɒːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bɔn]

### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (-pʾn' /⁠-bān⁠/, “-keeper, -guard”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”). Related to پاییدن (pâyidan). Also compare Old Armenian -պան (-pan).

#### Noun

بان • (bân)
* prince, lord, governor, chief

#### Suffix

بان • (-bân)
* keeper, guardian

#### See also
### Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to clothe, wear, put on”). Compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀 (vaŋhana), 𐬬𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬁𐬥𐬀 (vaŋhāna, “cover”).

#### Alternative forms

* بام (bâm), بون (bun)

#### Noun

بان • (bân)
* roof

##### Derived terms

* نردبان (nardebân) / نوردبان (navardebân)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from a descendant of Sanskrit बाण (bāṇa).

#### Noun

بان • (bân)
* (obsolete) arrow
    Synonym: تیر (tir)

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

بان • (bân)
* Alternative form of بانگ (bâng, “voice”)

### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 349
* Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 521

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بَانَ (bāna).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːn/, [bæːn]
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### Verb

بان • (bān) I (present ببان (bibān))
* to appear (mainly used in proverbs)
    Synonym: بيّن (bayyan)

#### See also

* ابن الحلال عند ذكره ببان (ʔibn il-ḥalāl ʕind zikro bibān, “speak of the devil”)

## Torwali
### Etymology

From Sanskrit वापन (vāpana, “sowing”).

### Noun

بان (bān)
* meadow, pasture