Derived words: bānû 'creator, begetter' (CAD B 94, AHw. 103); binītu 'creation, creature' (CAD B 238, AHw. 126); binûtu 'make-up, form, figure, shape, structure, construction' (CAD B 243, AHw. 127); biniannu 'form, figure' (CAD B 238, AHw. 126); bāntu 'mother' (CAD B 80, AHw. 102); bāntiš 'like a mother, in a motherly way' (CAD B 80, AHw. 1546); nabnītu 'offspring, progeny, product' (CAD N₁ 27, AHw. 698); tabnītu 'offspring; creation' (CAD T 30, AHw. 1299).
Adjective: banû 'beautiful, good'.
Derived words: babbanû 'of good quality, beautiful, pleasant, friendly, excellent' (CAD B 7, AHw. 94); babbanûtu 'excellence (?)' (CAD B 7, AHw. 94); banītu 'good treatment, reward; favorable, laudatory words; good fortune' (CAD B 80); banûtu 'beauty; good breeding, fine bearing' (CAD B 95, AHw. 103); bunnû 'beautiful' (CAD B 319, AHw. 138); mubannītu 'Wohltäterin' (AHw. 1575); mubannû 'cook (who prepares, arranges and serves food to the gods), temple cook' (CAD M₂ 158, AHw. 665); tabnītu 'beautification' (CAD T 29, AHw. 1299).
Cf. banû 'to be(come) good, beautiful'.
Or. bannu. Akk. bannu has been considered a loanword from Sum. BAN₂ 'a measure; a container' (PSD B 81), see Oppenheim 1948:10, fn. 28, AHw. 102, SLOB No. 84. This etymology is rather doubtful (Veenhof 1970:35).
Var. parsiqu.
From Sum. PARA₁₀.SI-ga “socle” (PSD B 145).
Derived words: birṣu (a luminous phenomenon) (CAD B 260, AHw. 129).
Derived words: baršu 'describing the hair as growing in patches' (CAD B 113, AHw. 107); biršu 'teaseled nap of a woolen fabric' (CAD B 261, AHw. 129); burrušu 'with hair growing in patches' (CAD B 332, AHw. 140).
Seems to be an “erroneous” borrowing from Sum. BAR.DUL₅(TUG₂) '(a garment)' (PSD B 119; the sign TUG₂ was probably misread as DIB, cf. CAD B 113b; Veenhof 1972, 162, fn. 276).
No definitive etymology can be suggested. According to Kouwenberg (apud SAD I 12), ba-ar-di₂-ti₂ and bar-di₂-ti₂ may represent a by-form of Akk. wardatu “girl”.