Benin

See also: Bénin, Benín, bénin, and bénîn

English

Etymology

From Portuguese Benim, from Isekiri Ubinu, from Yoruba ile ibinu (house of vexation).[1]

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Be‧nin
  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɛˈnɪn/, /bɛˈniːn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /bəˈnin/, /bəˈnɪn/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪn, Rhymes: -iːn

Proper noun

Benin

  1. A country in West Africa, formerly Dahomey.
    1. People's Republic of Benin, from 1975 to 1990
    2. Republic of Benin, since 1990

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

  1. Isidore Okpewho (1998) Once Upon a Kingdom, Indiana University Press, page 176.

Further reading

Anagrams


Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Breton

Proper noun

Benin ?

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in Africa)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɛnɪn]

Proper noun

Benin m inan

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Danish

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beːˈnin/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Be‧nin
  • Rhymes: -in

Proper noun

Benin n

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms


Estonian

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Faroese

Etymology

From Portuguese Benim, transcription of local corruption of Itsekiri ubinu, from Yoruba ile ibinu (house of vexation).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈniːn/

Proper noun

Benin n

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Benin
Accusative Benin
Dative Benini
Genitive Benins

Finnish

Etymology

From Portuguese Benim.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbenin/, [ˈbe̞nin]
  • Rhymes: -enin
  • Syllabification(key): Be‧nin

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Benin (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative Benin
genitive Beninin
partitive Beniniä
illative Beniniin
singular plural
nominative Benin
accusative nom. Benin
gen. Beninin
genitive Beninin
partitive Beniniä
inessive Beninissä
elative Beninistä
illative Beniniin
adessive Beninillä
ablative Beniniltä
allative Beninille
essive Benininä
translative Beniniksi
instructive
abessive Beninittä
comitative
Possessive forms of Benin (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person Beninini Beninimme
2nd person Beninisi Benininne
3rd person Benininsä

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beˈniːn/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Benin n (proper noun, genitive Benins or (optionally with an article) Benin)

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Benin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbɛnin]
  • Hyphenation: Be‧nin
  • Rhymes: -in

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa; official name: Republic of Benin)
    Synonym: (official name) Benini Köztársaság

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative Benin
accusative Benint
dative Beninnek
instrumental Beninnel
causal-final Beninért
translative Beninné
terminative Beninig
essive-formal Beninként
essive-modal
inessive Beninben
superessive Beninen
adessive Beninnél
illative Beninbe
sublative Beninre
allative Beninhez
elative Beninből
delative Beninről
ablative Benintől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Beniné
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Beninéi
Possessive forms of Benin
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Beninem
2nd person sing. Benined
3rd person sing. Beninje
1st person plural Beninünk
2nd person plural Beninetek
3rd person plural Beninjük

Derived terms


Interlingua

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Italian

Proper noun

Benin m

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Derived terms


Japanese

Romanization

Benin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ベニン

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.ɲin/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɲin
  • Syllabification: Be‧nin

Proper noun

Benin m

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
  • beniński
nouns

Further reading

  • Benin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Benin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bênin/
  • Hyphenation: Be‧nin

Proper noun

Bȅnin m (Cyrillic spelling Бе̏нин)

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Declension


Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbenin]

Proper noun

Benin m (genitive singular Beninu, declension pattern of dub)

  1. Benin (a country in Africa)

References

  • Benin in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

See also


Swedish

Etymology

From Portuguese Benim, from Isekiri Ubinu, from Yoruba ile ibinu (house of vexation).[1]

Proper noun

Benin n (genitive Benins)

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)
  • beninsk (Beninese, adjective)
  • beninier c (Beninese male)
  • beninska c (Beninese female)

References

  1. Isidore Okpewho (1998) Once Upon a Kingdom, Indiana University Press, page 176.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Benín (Benin).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Be‧nin
  • IPA(key): /beˈnin/, [beˈnin]

Proper noun

Benín

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Turkish

Proper noun

Benin

  1. Benin (a country in West Africa)

Declension

See also

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