# bini
## Ambonese Malay
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay bini, from Proto-Malayic *bini, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binahi (“woman, wife”).

### Noun

bini
* wife

## Betawi
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay bini, from Proto-Malayic *bini, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binahi (“woman, wife”).

### Noun

bini
* wife

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbiniʔ/ [ˈbi.n̪iʔ]
* Hyphenation: bi‧ni

### Noun

binì (Basahan spelling ᜊᜒᜈᜒ)
* modesty; daintiness
* charm
    Synonym: karinyo

#### Derived terms

* kabinian
* mabini
* magbini

## Brunei Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bini, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binahi (“woman, wife”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bi.ni/

### Noun

bini
* wife

#### Usage notes

* If reduplicated as bini-bini, it means female.

#### Antonyms

* laki (“husband”)

## Iban
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bini, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binahi (“woman, wife”); compare Urak Lawoi' บีนี (bini), Jarai bơnai.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bi.ni/

### Noun

bini
* wife
    Antonym: laki

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay bini, from Proto-Malayic *bini, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binahi (“woman, wife”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈbini/ [ˈbi.ni]
* Rhymes: -ini
* Syllabification: bi‧ni

### Noun

bini (plural bini-bini)
* (now colloquial) wife
    Synonym: istri
    Antonyms: laki, suami

### Further reading

* “bini” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Noun

bini m
* plural of bino

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbiː.niː/, [ˈbiːniː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbi.ni/, [ˈbiːni]

### Numeral

bīnī
* inflection of bīnus:
** nominative/vocative masculine plural
** genitive masculine/neuter singular

#### Usage notes

See usage notes at binus.

### References

* “bini”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “bini”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* bini in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to be absolutely ignorant of arithmetic: bis bina quot sint non didicisse (ambiguous) to lend at 24 per cent.[TR1: binis centesimis fenerari

## Lindu
### Noun

bini
* tuft; cluster

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bini, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binahi (“woman, wife”); compare Urak Lawoi' บีนี (bini), Jarai bơnai. See also Brunei Malay bini-bini (“woman”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bi.ni/

### Noun

bini (Jawi spelling بيني, plural bini-bini, informal 1st possessive biniku, 2nd possessive binimu, 3rd possessive bininya)
* wife
    Synonym: isteri
    Antonyms: laki, suami

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* berbini [stative / habitual] (beR-)

### Further reading

* “bini” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic بِناء (bināʔ). The final -i either by influence of binja or as a relict of word-final imala, for whose existence in older Maltese there is good evidence (it may have been lost through influence of the Romance feminine -a); compare also biki from Arabic بُكاء (bukāʔ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɪ.nɪ/

### Noun

bini m (plural binjiet)
* (uncountable) the act of building
* Synonym of binja (“a building, structure”).

## Megleno-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin bene. Compare Romanian bine, Aromanian ghini.

### Adverb

bini
* well

#### See also

* bun

## Papiamentu
### Alternative forms

* bin (synonym)

### Etymology

From Spanish venir and Kabuverdianu ben.

### Verb

bini
* to come

## Tagalog
### Etymology

See also Bikol Central bini, Malay bini, and Brunei Malay bini.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbiniʔ/ [ˈbiː.n̪ɪʔ]
* Rhymes: -iniʔ
* Syllabification: bi‧ni

### Noun

binì (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜈᜒ)
* modesty; coyness
    Synonym: hinhin

#### Derived terms

* kabinian
* mabini
* magpakabini
* pabini
* pabinian

#### See also

* binibini
* biniboy
* lakambini

### Further reading

* “bini”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 420: “Meſurado) Bini (pp) y ſoſegado”
** page 426: “Modeſto) Bini (pp) ſoſegado y repoſado”
** page 527: “Repoſado) Bini (pp) en todas ſus coſas”

## Turkish
### Noun

bini
* accusative singular of bin
* third-person singular possessive of bin

## Xhosa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bàdɪ́.

### Adjective

-biní
* two