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Webster 1913 Edition


Benim

Be-nim′

,
Verb.
T.
[AS.
beniman
. See
Benumb
, and cf.
Nim
.]
To take away.
[Obs.]
Ire . . .
benimeth
the man fro God.
Chaucer.

Definition 2024


Benim

Benim

See also: benim

Portuguese

Proper noun

Benim m

  1. Benin (a country in western Africa)

benim

benim

See also: Benim

English

Verb

benim (third-person singular simple present benims, present participle benimming, simple past benam or benimmed, past participle benomen or benome or benumb or benimmed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To take away; take away from. [10th-16thc.]
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter viij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI:
      and he had another vysyon / hym thoughte / that he came to a grete place whiche semed a chappel / & there he fonde a chayer sette on the lyfte syde whiche was worme eten / and feble / And on the ryghte hand were two floures lyke a lylye / and the one wold haue benome the others whytnes
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To rob; deprive; bereave.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To rob; spoil; ravish.

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Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beˈnim/
  • Hyphenation: be‧nim

Pronoun

benim

  1. my, mine, of mine (genitive of ben).

Notes

  • One of only two irregular Turkish genitive cases (the other is bizim (our, ours, of us)).