bine

See also: biné, bîne, Bine, and bıne

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

From bind (noun).

Noun

bine (plural bines)

1. (botany) A twining vine which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support. As distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers.
   • 1900, Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush:

     The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
     Like strings of broken lyres,
     And all mankind that haunted nigh
     Had sought their household fires.

Derived terms

• gaybine
• green bine
• hopbine
• treebine (Cissus spp.)
• woodbine (a common name for multiple species, only some of which are bines)

Translations

climbing plant growing in a helix

• Dutch: slingerplant (nl) f

Etymology 2

From Wills's Woodbine (cigarettes).

Noun

bine (plural bines)

1. (UK, slang) A cigarette.

   Synonym: fag

2. (MLE, slang) Bullets.
   • 2025 May 12, Bonez X Bitz, “Trips”, 0:58:

     You hear this
     We been sitting on bine
     So I beg you
     Step outta line
     We gon’ spray this up like a water slide

Derived terms

• bineage

Verb

bine (third-person singular simple present bines, present participle bining, simple past and past participle bined)

1. (MLE, slang) To fill with bullets, to shoot.
   • 2020 November 19, PR SAD, “One Wish” (1:41 from the start)‎^[1]:

     Three waps up and a couple of shanks (Just in case)
     But I got faith that these tools won't jam
     Dinger that whip, plates doing mileage
     Who's that cycling? Jump out bine him
     Perfect timing, Snap said "Five mins" then he held bineage
     They want me to rap, I want to close eyelids
     Juggling both, pretty exciting

   • 2021 October 15, TPL, O’mizz & JoJo, “Potion” (1:36 from the start)‎^[2]:

     My bro loco, wants nothing but violence
     Got a .9 of course it's firing
     Catch him in sight and light him light him
     Bark some teeth, made the teeth dem bine him

   • 2022 November 24, Buni x CH, “PSA” (1:14 from the start):

     I wanna bine him
     […] Grip that skeng, aim up and blast

   • 2023 February 7, Strika, “Sliding” (0:19 from the start)‎^[3]:

     Fuck that, I'm riding ’round
     I'm sliding 'round, spot opp, I'mma bine him now (Grr bow)
     Six in the spin I’mma slime him out
     Six in the spin tryna lie him down (Let's go)

   • 2023 December 1, M12 (Manor Park), “100k” (0:35 from the start)‎^[4]:

     I see him, I bine him, do him up clean
     I shoot, you're driving, pussio, please
     Change your mindset, get off the streets

Anagrams

• Beni, be-in, bein', Bien, bein

Abon

Numeral

bine

1. four

References

• Roger Blench, The Tivoid languages: Classification and comparative wordlist (2011)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English bean.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bin/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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Noun

bine f (plural bines)

1. (Quebec, informal) bean

Derived terms

• câline de bine

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bine (“crime; wrong-doing; fault; harm, damage, injury”).

Noun

bine m (genitive singular bine, uncountable)

1. (literary) harm, injury

Declension

Declension of bine (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative bine vocative a bhine genitive bine dative bine forms with the definite article singular nominative an bine genitive an bhine dative leis an mbine don bhine

Mutation

Mutated forms of bine

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bine	bhine	mbine

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: bì‧ne

Adjective

bine f

1. feminine plural of bino

Anagrams

• beni

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbiː.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbiː.ne]

Numeral

bīne

1. vocative masculine singular of bīnus

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• binj (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt)
• bin (Heligoland)

Etymology

From Old Frisian binda, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną.

Verb

bine

1. (Mooring) to bind

Conjugation

Conjugation of bine (Mooring dialect)

infinitive I	bine
infinitive II	(tu) binen
infinitive III	än bin
past participle	bünen
imperative	bin
	present	past
1st-person singular	bin	bün
2nd-person singular	banst	bünst
3rd-person singular	bant	bün
plural	bine	bünen
	perfect	pluperfect
1st-person singular	hääw bünen	häi bünen
2nd-person singular	hääst bünen	häist bünen
3rd-person singular	heet bünen	häi bünen
plural	hääwe bünen	häin bünen
	future (schale)	future (wårde)
1st-person singular	schal bine	wård bine
2nd-person singular	schäät bine	wårst bine
3rd-person singular	schal bine	wårt bine
plural	schan bine	wårde bine

Derived terms

• ferbine

Ojibwe

Noun

bine (plural bineg)

1. partridge

Noun

bine (plural binewag)

1. partridge, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse

Romanian

Alternative forms

• би́нє — pre-1860s Cyrillic spelling
• ghine — regional

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?

Proto-Italic *dwenos

Archaic Latin duenos

Archaic Latin *duenēd

Latin bene

Romanian bine

Inherited from Latin bene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ne/

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• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: bi‧ne

Adverb

bine

1. well

Derived terms

• binevenit

Adjective

bine m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. handsome

Declension

Declension of bine (invariable)

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	bine		bine	bine	bine
	definite	—		—	—	—
genitive- dative	indefinite	bine		bine	bine	bine
	definite	—		—	—	—

Noun

bine n (uncountable)

1. good
2. wellbeing

   Synonym: bunăstare

Related terms

• bun

Spanish

Verb

bine

1. inflection of binar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian binda, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbinə/

Verb

bine

1. to bind

Inflection

Strong class 3
infinitive	bine
3rd singular past	bûn
past participle	bûn
infinitive	bine
long infinitive	binen
gerund	binen n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	byn	bûn
2nd singular	bynst	bûnst
clitic form	bynsto	bûnsto
3rd singular	bynt	bûn
plural	bine	bûnen
imperative	byn
participles	binend	bûn

Derived terms

• bynwurd

Further reading

• “bine (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011