beno

Modification of Spanish vino (“wine”).[1]

beno (uncountable)

1. An alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented sap of palm trees, originating from the Philippines.
   • 1900, Harper’s History of the War in the Philippines, page 315:

     In cases of continuous intoxication it results in dysentery, fevers, insanity, and drinking beno is the cause of many deaths.

   • 1925, Cosmopolitan, page 18:

     I had some beno in my canteen and I took a few nips to steady me.

   • 1975, Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., Black Americans and the White Man’s Burden, 1898-1903, page 270:

     Lounging around village shops watching the girls and drinking beno, a potent alcoholic beverage, helped some of the soldiers overcome their boredom.

   • 2006, The Journals, page 53:

     He must have been drinking beno for he took a header, and as he went over the boat dipped considerably and of course soaked part of us.

From beni (“to bless”) +‎ -o.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈbeno]
• Rhymes: -eno
• Hyphenation: ben‧o

beno (accusative singular benon, plural benoj, accusative plural benojn)

1. blessing

   Antonym: malbeno

• beni (“to bless”)

beno

1. you

From N- (nominalizer) +‎ feno (“to close (transitive)”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbe.no]

beno

1. a wall

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh