Portuguese

Proper noun

Benim m

1. Benin (a country in western Africa)

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. [10^th-16^thc.]
   • 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.

Derived terms

• benimming
• benumb

Related terms

• beneme

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”)).