disc▪ Jeffery1938: »The verb banà ‘to build’ occurs in the Qurʔān along with certain formations therefrom, e.g. bināʔ ‘ceiled roof’, and mabnīy and it would seem on the surface that bannāʔ is another such formation. Nöldeke, Mand. Gramm, 120, n., however, has a suggestion that it is a borrowing from Aramaic, whence on the other hand it passed into mPers (cf. Herzfeld, Paikuli, Glossary, p. 156). Fraenkel, Fremdw, 255, is doubtful, but thinks that if it is a loan-word it comes from the Jewish bnʔʰ rather than from the Syr bnyā. Zimmern, Akkad. Fremdw, 26, considers them all as borrowed from Akk banū ‘to build’, though the SAr bny and its derivatives might suggest that the root developed independently in SSem (Rossini, Glossarium, 115).«