ب و ن

Arabic

Etymology

Related to ب ي ن (b-y-n).

Root

ب و ن • (b-w-n)

1. related to distance by excellence

Derived terms

• Form I: بَانَ (bāna, “to excel, to surpass in virtues”)
  • Verbal noun: بَوْن (bawn, “gap, distance, disparity”)
  • Active participle: بَائِن (bāʔin)

• بَنَان (banān, “five fingers”)
• بَان (bān, “ben tree; Egyptian willow”)
• بِوَان (biwān, “tent pole”)
• بَوْنَة (bawna) and بَانَة (bāna, “distinction, disparity”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ب و ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 174b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ب و ن”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 180b
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ب و ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 278a-b
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ب و ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 102