بنا

بِنَّا • (binnā) (form I)

1. first-person plural past active of بَانَ‎ (bāna)

Borrowed from Arabic بِنَاء‎ (bināʾ).

بنا • (bina)

1. building

Borrowed from Arabic بِنَاء‎ (bināʾ, “building”).

بنا • (benâ)

1. building

Borrowed from Arabic بَنَّاء‎ (bannāʾ, “builder”).

بنا • (bannâ)

1. bricklayer

• Hayyim, Sulayman. New Persian-English dictionary. [Teheran, Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim] 1934-1936.

From Sanskrit विना (vinā).

بنا‎ • (binā) (Hindi spelling बिना‎) (postposition and preposition)

1. without, prepared without

• بنا is one of the few Urdu prepositions.

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “بنا”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “بنا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & co.