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==English==
[[File:Bennu.jpg|right|thumb|'''Bennu''' as depicted in 1895, {{w|E. A. Wallis Budge}}, ''The Book of the Dead'']]
[[File:BennuAsteroid.jpg|thumb|Asteroid '''Bennu''' photographed by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2018]]

===Etymology===
Borrowing from {{bor|en|egy|bnw}}. {{doublet|en|phoenix}}.

===Proper noun===
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# {{lb|en|Egyptian god|often with "the"}} 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'', ''{{w|Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts}}'', Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=T9BMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA349&dq=%22bennu%22%7C%22bennus%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO6qbZxIPiAhWBbn0KHYXkByA4ZBDoAQiYAjAv#v=onepage&q=%22bennu%22%7C%22bennus%22&f=false 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 temple of '''Bennu'''," a god, who was represented in the form of a waterfowl, and whose phonetic name is of frequent occurrence.
#* '''2014''', J. Daniel Gunther, ''The Angel & The Abyss'', Nicolas-Hays, Inc. (Ibis Press), [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Dva0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113&dq=%22bennu%22%7C%22bennus%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO6qbZxIPiAhWBbn0KHYXkByA4ZBDoAQjqATAn#v=onepage&q=%22bennu%22%7C%22bennus%22&f=false page 113],
#*: 15 The ''Uas Sceptre'' is the origin of the “Phoenix Wand”, which is the Wand of the Imperator of <math>\mathrm A\!\therefore\!\mathrm A\!\therefore\,</math>. The head of the wand was not originally a '''Bennu''' Bird, but the head of the god Set. The identification with the '''Bennu''' seems to have originated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
# {{lb|en|astronomy}} The [[near-Earth object|near-Earth]] [[asteroid]] {{w|101955 Bennu}}.
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Kenneth Chang|title=NASA’s Osiris-Rex Arrives at Asteroid Bennu After a Two-Year Journey|work=The New York Times|date=2018-12-03|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/science/osiris-rex-bennu-asteroid-arrival.html|issn=0362-4331|passage=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.)}}

====Usage notes====
* The bird is sometimes identified as the [[phoenix]].
** Classical thinking linked the phoenix of Greek mythology to an Egyptian mythological origin; this idea was reinforced by the 19th century discovery that the Bennu had been venerated in [[Heliopolis]]. Modern scholars, however, consider the Egyptian sources problematic and are sceptical about the direction of the influence.

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|Bennu bird}} {{gloss|the bird aspect of the deity; the indefinite corresponding real bird}}
* {{l|en|Bennu heron}} {{gloss|{{taxlink|Ardea bennuides|species}}†}}

====Related terms====
* {{sense|astronomy}} [[OSIRIS-REx]]

====Translations====
{{trans-top|Egyptian deity}}
* Egyptian: {{t-egy|bnw|h=b-n:nw*w-G31}}
* Italian: {{t|it|Benu|m}}, {{t|it|Bennu|m}}
* Marathi: {{t|mr|बेन्नू|m}}
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{{trans-top|asteroid}}
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===Further reading===
* {{pedia|Bennu}}
** {{pedia|Nephthys#Chief goddess of Nome VII|Nephthys § Chief goddess of Nome VII}}
* {{pedia|101955 Bennu}}

==Turkish==

===Pronunciation===
* {{hyphenation|tr|Ben|nu}}

===Proper noun===
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# {{given name|tr|female}}
#: ''{{w|Bennu Yıldırımlar|'''Bennu''' Yıldırımlar}}''