ben

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 介词 prep.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A prayer; a petition. obsolete
  2. The inner room of a two-room cottage (as opposed to the but); the ben room. Northern-England,Scotland
    — Bert Kerston was awakened by a steady tap on the ben window.
  3. A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
  4. Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames). capitalized,uncountable,usually
  5. A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak.
  6. A benefit (performance to raise funds). UK,obsolete,slang
    — In the Chronicles of the Stage, some curious particulars are given relating to Sir Henry Herbert and the well-known Sir William Davidson, by which we learn, amongst other things, that a “ben” or benefit at Drury Lane, two centuries ago, was worth a hundred pounds.
  7. Alternative form of bin. Ireland,alt-of,alternative
  8. The winged seed of the ben tree.
  9. The oil of the ben seed.
形容词 adj.
  1. Inner, interior.
  2. Alternative spelling of bene; good. UK,alt-of,alternative,obsolete
    — A gage of ben Rom-bouse, / In a bousing-ken of Rom-vile, / Is benar than a Caster, / Pecke, pennam, lay, or popler, / Which we mill in deuse a vile.
副词 adv.
  1. Inside. Northern-England,Scotland,not-comparable
介词 prep.
  1. In, into. Northern-England,Scotland
    — And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.

词形变化

bens plural bene alternative benner comparative benmost superlative bens plural bens plural Ben alternative bin alternative bens plural benar comparative benat superlative bens plural bens plural

词汇关系

近义词
drumstick tree horseradish tree moringa
衍生词
ben-nut ben oil

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ben, bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōni, from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Related to ban. More at boon.
词源 2
From Middle English ben, bene, variation of bin, binne (“within”), from Old English binnan (“within, in, inside of, into”), equivalent to be- + in.
词源 3
From Middle English been, from Old French and Medieval Latin, probably from a North African pronunciation of Arabic بَان (bān, “ben tree”).
词源 4
From Arabic بِن (bin) and Hebrew בן (ben, “son”).
词源 5
Borrowed from Scots ben, benn, from Scottish Gaelic beinn.
词源 6
c. 16th century. Probably from Latin bene or Italian bene.
词源 7
Shortening.
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