bain

• IPA^(key): /beɪn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪn

From Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), from Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”).

• bane

bain (comparative more bain, superlative most bain)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Ready; willing.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Direct; near; short; gain.

   That is the bainest way.

3. (Now chiefly dialectal) Limber; pliant; flexible.

bain (comparative more bain, superlative most bain)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Readily; willingly.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Nearby; at hand.

• bainly

From Middle English bayne~baine, from Old French bain, from Latin baneum, variant of balneum. Doublet of bagnio, balaneion, and banya.

• bane (obsolete)
• bayne (15th-17th centuries)

bain (plural bains)

1. (obsolete) A bath.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:

     THus was sir Tramtryst longe there wel cherysshed / with the kynge and the quene / […] / So vpon a daye / the quene and la beale Isoud made a bayne for syre Tramtryst / And whan he was in his bayne / the quene and Isoud her doughter romed vp & doune in the chamber / and there whyles Gouernail and Heles attendyd vpon Tramtryst

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• AIBN, Bian, Bina, IBAN, Iban, Nabi, bani, nabi, naib

bain ?

1. (Sappada, Sauris, Timau) wine

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

• boi

From Middle High German wīn, from Old High German wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum. Cognate with German Wein, English wine.

bain m

1. (Sette Comuni, Tredici Comuni) wine

   Dar bain ist och gamacht mettar baimarn. ― The wine is also made with grapes. (Sette Comuni dialect)

• “bain” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Inherited from Latin baneum, variant of balneum. Doublet of bagne.

• IPA^(key): /bɛ̃/

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bain m (plural bains)

1. bath

• baigner
• balnéaire

• “bain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Compare Pangasinan baing

• IPA^(key): /baˈʔin/ [bɐˈʔin]
• Hyphenation: ba‧in

baín (Kur-itan spelling ᜊᜁᜈ᜔)

1. shame

• bean

From a conflation of Old Irish benaid (“beat, strike”) and bongaid (“break, cut”),^{[1] [2]}

• (Munster, Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠɪnʲ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠanʲ/, /bˠænʲ/

bain (present analytic baineann, future analytic bainfidh, verbal noun baint, past participle bainte) (transitive, intransitive)

1. extract from bed in ground, dig out; dig up (potatoes, etc.); mine (coal, etc.)
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 60:

     wȧn šē fatī əńḗ, ńī raudr̥ gə dønə

     [Bhain sé fataí inné, ní rabhadar go dona.]

     He dug up potatoes yesterday, they weren’t bad.

2. separate from root, stem, etc.; reap, pick; cut (hay, turf, flowers, etc.), mow
3. release from socket; open
4. release from source; shed
5. release sound; strike
6. agitate
7. release from hold; lift
8. win
9. become due

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bain	bhain	mbain
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bain”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bain”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bain”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

bain

1. shame

bain

1. bashful; shy

From Latin bene.

bain

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) well
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) beautifully
3. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) yes (used to disagree with a negative statement)

• bein (Sursilvan)
• bagn (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

• bainschi

bain m (plural bains)

1. (Puter, Vallader) farm

• bein (Sursilvan)

• (Rumantsch Grischun) bain puril, (Sursilvan) bein puril
• (Rumantsch Grischun) puraria, (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) purareia, (Vallader) pauraria
• (Sutsilvan) manaschi da purs
• (Surmiran) curt purila