Binyan

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    In Semitic languages, especially Hebrew, a template that creates verbs by having root consonants slotted into it.

Etymology

From Hebrew בניין / בִּנְיָן (binyan, literally “building, construction”).

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