benna بنة بنين
Algerian Darja · adjective
“benna” (بنة بنين) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning delicious, tasty.
Meanings
- delicious, tasty
- pleasant taste, flavor
Usage
These are two words from the same family. Bnin is the everyday adjective for saying a dish is good or delicious: "had el couscous bnin". The feminine is bnina, the plural bnan. Benna is the noun: the taste, the pleasant flavor of a food. You hear it in "fih el benna" (it has flavor) or "ma fih hata benna" (it has no flavor at all). This vocabulary is informal and everyday, especially at the table and in the kitchen. Bnin is said first of food, but it is sometimes used affectionately for a pleasant thing or person.
Example
هاد الشربة بنينة بزاف
had ech-chorba bnina bezzaf
“This soup is really delicious.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “benna” but also “bnin”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.