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بنى

Root: بن

3 entries for this word

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Entry 1

بنى bunnī coffee-colored, brown

Entry 2

بنى bana i (بناء binā’, بنيان bunyān) and VIII to build, erect, construct, set up (هـ s.th.); to build, establish, rest (على هـ s.th. on); to consummate the marriage (بها and عليها with a woman); pass. buniya, ubtuniya to be based, be built, rest (على on)│بنى كلمة على (kalimalan) to give a word an indeclinable ending in (a certain vowel or a vowelless consonant; gram.) V see 1 بن

Entry 3

بنى (Engl.) penny

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