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بِنْت
girl /ˈbint/
nounA2#921 most common
Also: daughter, young woman
Example sentences
هَذِهِ بِنْت.
This is a girl.
البِنْت تَلْعَب في الحَديقة.
The girl is playing in the garden.
بِنْتي تَدْرُس في الجامِعة.
My daughter studies at the university.
تَزَوَّجَ مِن بِنْت عَمِّه.
He married his cousin, his paternal uncle's daughter.
كانَت بِنْتاً ذَكِيّة لا تَخْشى أن تَقولَ رَأْيَها.
She was a clever girl who was not afraid to speak her mind.
مَهْما كَبِرَت البِنْت، تَبْقى في عَيْنِ أبيها طِفلةً صَغيرة.
However much the girl grows up, she remains a little child in her father's eyes.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بِنْتٌ | بَنَاتٌ |
| Genitive | بِنْتٍ | بَنَاتٍ |
| Accusative | بِنْتاً | بَنَاتٍ |
| Vocative | يا بِنْتُ | يا بَنَاتُ |
Word family
ابن (ibn)son
ابنة (ibna)daughter (formal variant)
بَنَات (banāt)girls, daughters (plural)
بُنَيّة (bunayya)little girl (diminutive)
Etymology
بِنْت is the feminine counterpart of ابن (ibn), 'son,' formed from a Semitic root for offspring plus a feminine -t ending. The same word runs through the Semitic family: Hebrew bat and Akkadian bintu both go back to Proto-Semitic *bint-. It has no link to Indo-European words for daughter, so no PIE root applies.
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