bin

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Bini.

Symbol

bin

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Edo.

See also

English

A rubbish bin.

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Late Latin benna or a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, Old Breton benn (“caisson”), modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna).[1][2][3] Compare German Benne (“wheelbarrow”) and Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben and as a borrowing, West Frisian bin (both "wicker basket").

Noun

bin (plural bins)

  1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
    Synonyms: container, receptacle
    a corn bin
    a wine bin
    a coal bin
    The bins were stacked with bargains.
  2. A container for rubbish or waste.
    Synonyms: (British) dustbin, (British, Australian) rubbish bin, (US) garbage can, trash can; see also Thesaurus:waste bin
    a rubbish bin
    a wastepaper bin
    an ashes bin
    • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
  3. (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
  4. Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
  5. (MLE, MTE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:jail
    • 2018 October 22, “Subs”, Slipz of Hoxton (lyrics)‎[3]:
      Free up my G's locked in the bin
      Jail house comin' like subs
      one comes out then one goes in
  6. (slang) Ellipsis of loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
    • 1973, New Scientist, volume 58, number 852, page 822:
      At the moment, and in "an emergency", you or I could be sent to the bin, willy-nilly, on the say-so of a single doctor (who may never have seen us before, and need have no particular experience of mental illness), so long as the application is supported by one of our relatives, or by a "social worker".
    • 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:
      “She’s crazy,” I said. “She should be in a bin.”
  7. (video post-production) A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.
Derived terms
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Verb

bin (third-person singular simple present bins, present participle binning, simple past and past participle binned)

  1. (chiefly UK, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
    Synonyms: chuck, chuck away, discard, dump; see also Thesaurus:junk
    • 2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books,, →ISBN, page 28:
      He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.
  2. (UK, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
    • 2002, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 59:
      This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]
    • 2005, Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 238:
      The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […]
    • 2021 September 22, Howard Johnston, “NR: stop firefighting and plan for long-term progress”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11:
      NR also wants more effort made to bin out-of-date 1970s technology, but only replacing it with equipment that meets customer needs, rather than high-tech kit just for the sake of it.
  3. (statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  4. (transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
    to bin wine
Translations

Etymology 2

From Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Noun

bin

  1. (in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
Coordinate terms

Etymology 3

Contraction of being.

Contraction

bin

  1. (text messaging) Contraction of being.

Etymology 4

Pronunciation spelling of been.

Verb

bin

  1. (obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been.
    • 1669, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne:
      Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast […]
    • 1930, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 274:
      ‘Mebbe you’re right, Jed. Mebbe you’re right,’ sighed Peter. ‘I don’t see how you missed your master’s license, though. ’Twould ha’ bin fitter for a master to own shares in his ship than a fust mate.’

Etymology 5

Clipping of binary.

Noun

bin (countable and uncountable, plural bins)

  1. (computing) Clipping of binary.

References

  1. ^ Barnhart, Robert and Steinmetz, Sol, editors (1988), “bin”, in The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology‎[1], Bronxville, N.Y.: The H. W. Wilson Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94.
  2. ^ Holthausen, Ferdinand (1963) [1934], “binn(e) f.”, in Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old English Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, →OCLC, page 24.
  3. ^ Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “bin”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 95, column 2; reprinted 1994.

Anagrams

Biak

Noun

bin

  1. woman
    • [4]: FAFYAR BEKUR KORBEN MA BIN YOMGA : "THE STORY ABOUT DRAGON AND THE YOMGA WOMAN"
      Korben ine fyair bin berande ido bebaraprapen ro yaf narewara bo bebur mumra si. : This dragon usually watched the women who usually went landward and roasted (food) along the gardens and went home seaward.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin bene. Compare Romanian bine, Italian bene, Spanish bien, French bien.

Adverb

bin

  1. well
    Ju sai bin. ― I am well.

Noun

bin

  1. good

Egyptian

Romanization

bin

  1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of bjn.

French

Pronunciation

Adverb

bin

  1. alternative spelling of bien (in the adverb sense "very" or in the interjection sense "well, ...")

German

Etymology

From Middle High German bin, from Old High German bim (“am”), from Proto-Germanic *biumi (first-person singular present active indicative of Proto-Germanic *beuną (“to be”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to be, become, appear”). Cognate with Dutch ben (“am”), Old English bēom (“am”). More at be.

German bin and Dutch ben have two sources:

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
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Verb

bin

  1. first-person singular present of sein

References

  1. ^ Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “bin”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese vir. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ben.

Verb

bin

  1. to come

Gullah

Etymology

From English been.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪn/

Particle

bin (tense-aspect marker)

  1. denotes the anterior tense
  2. denotes the past perfect tense for active verbs
  3. denotes the simple past tense for stative verbs

Verb

bin

  1. Past tense of the copula
  2. was
  3. been

References

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bin, from Classical Malay bin, from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).

Noun

bin (plural bin-bin)

  1. son (of)

Japanese

Romanization

bin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of びん

Kalam

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mbín]

Noun

bin

  1. woman
  2. wife

References

  • Andrew Pawley, Ralph Bulmer, A dictionary of Kalam with ethnographic notes (2011)

Krio

Etymology

From English been.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (particle) IPA(key): /bìn/
  • (verb) IPA(key): /bîn/

Particle

bìn

  1. Marks simple past tense

Verb

bîn

  1. to live in a place other than one's own birthplace

References

  1. ^ Fyle, Clifford N.; Jones, Eldred D. (1980), A Krio-English dictionary, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 38

Malay

Etymology

From Classical Malay bin, from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”). Cognate to Indonesian bin.

Noun

bin

  1. (name custom) son (of)
    Amir bin Aiman
    Amir bin Aiman

See also

  • binti (“daughter of”)

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بِن (bin). One of very few words in which a stressed final short vowel is not indicated by doubling the following consonant (another example being lil). This is because there is no gemination before suffixes (compare e.g. binha (“her son”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

bin

  1. construct form of iben
    Bin il-Bniedem ― Son of Man

Usage notes

  • As a tendency, this form is used before the definite article and before names, while unchanged iben is used otherwise.

Mandarin

Romanization

bin

  1. nonstandard spelling of bīn
  2. nonstandard spelling of bǐn
  3. nonstandard spelling of bìn

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle High German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈbin/

Verb

bin

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sīn / wësen

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

Presumably from English been (“past participle of be”).

Verb

bin

  1. (auxiliary) Used to express the past tense of a verb.
    • 2025 April 23, Orla Guerin, “More dan 150 pipo injure as earthquakes shake buildings for Turkey Istanbul”, in BBC News Pidgin‎[5], archived from the original on 13 August 2025:
      Turkish officials bin report two oda smaller earthquakes, also dem record aftershocks.
      Turkish officials reported two other smaller earthquakes, also they recorded aftershocks.

Further reading

  • “bin” in Naija Guru, 2026.

North Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Frisian binda, which derives from Proto-Germanic *bindaną.

Verb

bin

  1. (Heligoland) to bind

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *buHnáh (“base, foundation”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰudʰnás (“bottom, ground”), from a reshaping of Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ(m̥)nés, genitive singular of *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Related to Ossetian бын (byn), Persian بن (bon).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɪn/

Noun

bin m (Arabic spelling بن)

  1. foundation, bottom; base
    Synonym: verenk
    Antonyms: qehf, ser

Declension

Declension of bin
definite masculine gender
case singular plural
nominative bin bin
construct binê binên
oblique binî binan
demonstrative oblique wî binî wan binan
vocative bino binino
indefinite masculine gender
case singular plural
nominative binek binin
construct binekî binine
oblique binekî bininan

Preposition

bin (Arabic spelling بن)

  1. below, under, beneath
    Antonym: ser

References

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “bin I”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 81
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “bin II”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 81

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti
Proto-Italic *gʷəniō
Latin veniō
Old Spanish venir
Spanish venirder.
▲
Latin venīre
Old Galician-Portuguese vĩir
Portuguese vir
Kabuverdianu bender.
Papiamentu bin

    Derived from Spanish venir and Kabuverdianu ben.

    Verb

    bin

    1. to come

    Pennsylvania German

    Etymology

    Compare German bin, Dutch ben.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /bɪn/

    Verb

    bin

    1. first-person singular present indicative of sei

    Swahili

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Arabic بِن (bin, “son”).[1]

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      bin class IX (plural bin class X)

      1. son of
        Khamis bin Abdallah ― Khamis the son of Abdallah

      References

      1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 39 Nr. 312

      Swedish

      Pronunciation

      • Rhymes: -iːn

      Noun

      bin

      1. indefinite plural of bi

      Taivoan

      Noun

      bin

      1. brother

      Talysh

      Verb

      bin

      1. present stem of vinde

      Tok Pisin

      Etymology 1

      From English been.

      Particle

      bin

      1. Marks the simple past tense.
      See also

      Tok Pisin tense and aspect markers:

      Etymology 2

      From English bean.

      Noun

      bin

      1. bean, beans

      References

      Turkish

      Turkish numbers (edit)
       ←  100  ←  900 1,000 10,000  → 
      100
          Cardinal: bin
          Ordinal: bininci
          Distributive: biner

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈbin/
      • Audio:(file)

      Etymology 1

      Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بیڭ (biŋ, “thousand”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بٖیكۡ (biŋ, “thousand”), from Proto-Turkic *bïŋ (“thousand”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰃𐰭 (b¹iŋ /⁠bïŋ⁠/), 𐰋𐰃𐰭 (b²iŋ /⁠biŋ⁠/), Old Uyghur 𐽹𐽶𐽺𐽷 (mïŋ, “thousand”), Bashkir мең (miñ, “thousand”), Tatar мең (meñ, “thousand”) and Mongolian мянган (mjangan, “thousand”) a Turkic borrowing.

      Numeral

      bin

      1. thousand
      Declension
      Declension of bin
      singular plural
      nominative bin binler
      definite accusative bini binleri
      dative bine binlere
      locative binde binlerde
      ablative binden binlerden
      genitive binin binlerin
      Possessive forms
      nominative
      singular plural
      1st singular binim binlerim
      2nd singular binin binlerin
      3rd singular bini binleri
      1st plural binimiz binlerimiz
      2nd plural bininiz binleriniz
      3rd plural binleri binleri
      definite accusative
      singular plural
      1st singular binimi binlerimi
      2nd singular binini binlerini
      3rd singular binini binlerini
      1st plural binimizi binlerimizi
      2nd plural bininizi binlerinizi
      3rd plural binlerini binlerini
      dative
      singular plural
      1st singular binime binlerime
      2nd singular binine binlerine
      3rd singular binine binlerine
      1st plural binimize binlerimize
      2nd plural bininize binlerinize
      3rd plural binlerine binlerine
      locative
      singular plural
      1st singular binimde binlerimde
      2nd singular bininde binlerinde
      3rd singular bininde binlerinde
      1st plural binimizde binlerimizde
      2nd plural bininizde binlerinizde
      3rd plural binlerinde binlerinde
      ablative
      singular plural
      1st singular binimden binlerimden
      2nd singular bininden binlerinden
      3rd singular bininden binlerinden
      1st plural binimizden binlerimizden
      2nd plural bininizden binlerinizden
      3rd plural binlerinden binlerinden
      genitive
      singular plural
      1st singular binimin binlerimin
      2nd singular bininin binlerinin
      3rd singular bininin binlerinin
      1st plural binimizin binlerimizin
      2nd plural bininizin binlerinizin
      3rd plural binlerinin binlerinin
      Derived terms
      • binbir (“very many”, literally “a thousand and one”)
      • binlerce (“thousands of”)

      Etymology 2

      Verb

      bin

      1. second-person singular imperative of binmek

      Welsh

      Etymology 1

      Borrowed from English bin.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /bɪn/
      • Rhymes: -ɪn

      Noun

      bin m (plural biniau or bins)

      1. bin, trashcan

      Mutation

      Mutated forms of bin
      radical soft nasal aspirate
      bin fin min unchanged

      Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
      All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

      Etymology 2

      Mutated form of pin (“pine trees”).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /biːn/

      Noun

      bin

      1. soft mutation of pin (“pine trees”)

      Mutation

      Mutated forms of pin
      radical soft nasal aspirate
      pin bin mhin phin

      Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
      All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

      West Frisian

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /bɪn/

      Verb

      bin

      1. first-person singular present of wêze

      Yola

      Etymology

      Originated 1250–1300 from Middle English beynge.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /bɪn/

      Verb

      bin

      1. being
        • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 3:
          Shu bin vrem Vorth, an hay vrem Bargee,
          She being from Forth and he from Bargy;

      References

      • Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎[6], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133

      Yucatec Maya

      Alternative forms

      Verb

      bin (intransitive)

      1. to go
        Bin meyaj tolo'.
        She went there to work.
      2. to leave

      Zoogocho Zapotec

      Etymology

      Borrowed from Spanish vena, from Latin vēna.

      Noun

      bin

      1. vein

      References

      • Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000), Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎[7] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16
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