Wiktionary

bn

See also: Bn, BN, B.N., .bn, bn., and Bn.

Translingual

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Symbol

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bn

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Bengali.

English

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Noun

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bn

  1. (chiefly British, Commonwealth except Canada, Ireland) Abbreviation of billion.

Alternative forms

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Coordinate terms

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  • mn (million)
  • tn (trillion)

Adjective

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bn

  1. Initialism of brand new.

Anagrams

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Egyptian

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Etymology

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Related to (and probably developed from) earlier nn (“not”).[1] The spelling with b- may reflect a graphic phenomenon rather than a sound change. Compare the Late Egyptian development of bw from Earlier Egyptian nj.

Pronunciation

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Particle

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b
n

 proclitic

  1. (Late Egyptian) not; negates the adverbial sentence/first present, the third future, and the optative
  2. (Late Egyptian) not; negates a nominal sentence
  3. (Late Egyptian, with a following noun or pronoun) without; there not being any …

Usage notes

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The negative constructions with this particle are isomorphic to the corresponding positive constructions without it; they are formed by simply prepending bn to the start of the clause. In the negated adverbial and nominal sentences, occasionally another negation particle, jwnꜣ, is used with bn, discontinuously following the negated element. In higher linguistic registers nn (“not”) is sometimes used instead of bn.

References

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  • Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, pages 113, 115, 117, 123–124, 140, 169–170
  1. ^ Oréal, Elsa (2022) “The negative existential cycle in Ancient Egyptian” in Ljuba Veselinova & Arja Hamari (eds.), The Negative Existential Cycle, Berlin: Language Science Press, pages 197–230

Latin

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Adverb

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bn

  1. Abbreviation of bene.

Romanian

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Adverb

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bn

  1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of bine (“well”).

Adjective

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bn m or f or n (indeclinable)

  1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of bine (“good”).

Spanish

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Adverb

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bn

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of bien.

Adjective

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bn m or f (masculine and feminine plural bns)

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of bien.

Noun

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bn

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of bien.

Vietnamese

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Phrase

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bn

  1. Initialism of bao nhiêu.
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