bnti بنتي
Moroccan Darija · noun
“bnti” (بنتي) is a noun in Moroccan Darija meaning my daughter.
Meanings
- my daughter
- my girl (affectionate address)
Usage
Bnti is the possessive form of bent (girl, daughter) with the first-person suffix. Literally, it is the speaker's own daughter. Preceded by the vocative particle a, a bnti is also an affectionate or familiar way for an older person to address a young woman who is not their daughter, like "my girl" in English. Depending on the intonation, the address can also express annoyance or reproach. The plural is bnati (my daughters).
Example
بنتي راه مشات
benti rah mchat
“My daughter has left.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “bnti” but also “benti”, “banti” and “binti”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “bnti” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “my daughter”; “my girl (affectionate address)”: benti in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “my daughter”; “my girl (affectionate address)”: benti in Tunisian.