benne

See also: Benne, bénne, and Bënne

English

Etymology

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

Noun

benne (uncountable)

1. (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^(key): /bɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

benne f (plural bennes)

1. bin, skip

   benne à ordures ― garbage skip

2. dump truck
3. barrow, carrying basket
4. 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

1. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) inside

See also

• Plautdietsch: benna

Hungarian

Pronominal adverbs from case suffixes (cf. postpositions)
ed	suffix	who?	what?	this	that	he/she (it)*
case							v. pr.	c.
nom.	–	ki	mi	ez	az	ő* / -∅ az / -∅	–	–
acc.	-t / -ot / -at / -et / -öt	kit	mit	ezt	azt	őt* / -∅ azt / -∅	–	c1 c2
dat.	-nak / -nek	kinek	minek	ennek	annak	neki	neki-	c
ins.	-val / -vel	kivel	mivel	ezzel/ evvel	azzal/ avval	vele		c
c-f.	-ért	kiért	miért	ezért	azért	érte	–	c
tra.	-vá / -vé	kivé	mivé	ezzé	azzá	–	–	c
ter.	-ig	–	meddig	eddig	addig	–	–	c
e-f.	-ként	(kiként)	(miként)	ekként	akként	–	–	c
e-m.	-ul / -ül	–	–	–	–	–	–	c
ine.	-ban / -ben	kiben	miben	ebben	abban	benne	–	c
sup.	-n/-on/-en/-ön	kin	min	ezen	azon	rajta	(rajta-)	c
ade.	-nál / -nél	kinél	minél	ennél	annál	nála	–	c
ill.	-ba / -be	kibe	mibe	ebbe	abba	bele	bele-	c
sub.	-ra / -re	kire	mire	erre	arra	rá	rá-	c
all.	-hoz/-hez/-höz	kihez	mihez	ehhez	ahhoz	hozzá	hozzá-	c
el.	-ból / -ből	kiből	miből	ebből	abból	belőle	–	c
del.	-ról / -ről	kiről	miről	erről	arról	róla	–	c
abl.	-tól / -től	kitől	mitől	ettől	attól	tőle	–	c
*: Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise. – Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All »

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛnːɛ]

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• Hyphenation: ben‧ne
• Rhymes: -nɛ

Pronoun

benne

1. 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.

Declension

Inflection of benne person singular plural 1st bennem / énbennem bennünk / mibennünk 2nd benned / tebenned bennetek / tibennetek 3rd benne / őbenne bennük / őbennük

Derived terms

Expressions

• benne van a korban
• van benne valami

 

Related terms

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

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian pronouns

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 Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛn.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɛnne
• Hyphenation: bèn‧ne

Noun

benne f

1. plural of benna

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈben.ne/

Noun

benne

1. inflection of benn:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural