English

Noun

binn ‎(plural binns)

1. Archaic spelling of bin (storage container for wine, etc.)
   • Charles Dickens, Bleak House

     Mr. Tulkinghorn sits at one of the open windows, enjoying a bottle of old port. Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless binn of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bind, binn ‎(“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”).

Adjective

binn ‎(genitive singular feminine binne, plural binne, comparative binne)

1. (of music) sweet
2. melodious
3. harmonious

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Irish benn, from Proto-Celtic *bennom ‎(“peak, top”).

Noun

binn f ‎(genitive singular binne, nominative plural beanna)

1. peak, tip, summit (of a mountain or hill)
2. (architecture) corner, gable
3. pinnacle
4. horn
5. (figuratively) stanza, couplet

Declension

Derived terms

• binn siosúir f ‎(“blade of scissors”)
• biorbheannach m ‎(“pronghorn”)

Related terms

• beann

Mutation

References

• "binn" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “binn (‘melodious, harmonious’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “benn (‘peak; horn’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old English

Noun

binn f

1. stall

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːɲ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bind, binn ‎(“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”).

Adjective

binn

1. melodious, musical, tuneful, dulcet, sweet

   Èisd ris an òran binn nan eun.‎ ― Listen to the sweet song of the birds.

2. shrill
3. harmonious

Etymology 2

Noun

binn f ‎(genitive singular binne, plural binnean)

1. (law) sentence, judgement, verdict, decision, condemnation
2. fate
3. melody
4. hopper of a mill

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
• “binn (‘melodious, harmonious’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.