Bennu

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Bennu

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Borrowed from Egyptian bnw. Doublet of phoenix.

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Egyptian, often, with definite article A self-created deity with the form of a bird (in New Kingdom artwork, a heron) that features in the ancient Egyptian creation myth and is also described as the ba (soul) of Ra. 1830, "E. H.", Fragments on Egyptian Literature, Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, page 349, One compound name, of which it is an element, is that of the city, from which the Sebennytic mouth of the Nile was denominated Sebennu, that is, "the
The near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu. Osiris-Rex’s arrival at Bennu was not like the landing of NASA’s InSight spacecraft in one piece on the surface of Mars last Monday. (Happily, it landed flawlessly.)

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name Egyptian deity

Italiano	Benu, Bennu

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"Bennu." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bennu. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Bennu. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bennu

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"Bennu." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bennu.

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@misc{bennu_2026,
  title = {Bennu},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bennu},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}