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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bon"
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Abinomn • Bourguignon • Catalan • Cimbrian • Danish • Dutch • Franco-Provençal • French • Friulian • Guinea-Bissau Creole • Haitian Creole • Hungarian • Indonesian • Interlingua • Japanese • Kabuverdianu • Ladin • Luxembourgish • Malay • Middle English • Middle French • Norwegian Nynorsk • Old English • Old French • Old Occitan • Papiamentu • Polish • Romanian • Slovene • Sranan Tongo • Swedish • Tày • Torres Strait Creole • Venetan • Vietnamese • Volapük • Walloon
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Translingual

Symbol

bon

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bine.

See also

Abinomn

Noun

bon

  1. (anatomy) shoulder

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

bon (feminine bonne, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bonnes, comparative moillous, superlative moillous)

  1. good

Antonyms

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

Adjective

bon

  1. good; alternative form of bo
Usage notes
  • The form bon is used as the masculine singular form when the adjective precedes the noun, and bo is used in all other cases.
References
  • “bo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan བོན (bon).

Noun

bon m (plural bons)

  1. Bon (an indigenous Tibetan religion)
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Cimbrian

Etymology 1

Preposition

bon

  1. (Mezzaselva) alternative form of von

Etymology 2

Contraction

bon

  1. (Mezzaselva) alternative form of von

Danish

Etymology 1

From French bon (“voucher, ticket”), from the adjective bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”). Compare also German Bon (“receipt, voucher”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bon c (singular definite bonen, plural indefinite boner)

  1. receipt
Declension
More information common gender, singular ...

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

bon

  1. imperative of bone

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

bon

  1. imperative of bone
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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bon
  • Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

bon m (plural bonnen or bons, diminutive bonnetje n)

  1. receipt
  2. (Netherlands) ticket, fine (e.g. for speeding)
    Synonym: bekeuring
  3. voucher
    Synonym: cheque

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Caribbean Javanese: bon
  • → Indonesian: bon
  • → Papiamentu: bòn
  • → Sranan Tongo: bon
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Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bonus.

Adjective

bon (feminine bôna, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bônes) (ORB, broad)

  1. good
    Antonym: môvés
  2. right, correct

Derived terms

References

  • bon in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • bon in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bon, from Old French bon, from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bon (feminine bonne, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bonnes, comparative meilleur, superlative le meilleur)

  1. good
    Antonym: mauvais
    Near-synonym: bien
  2. right, correct, appropriate
    Antonyms: faux, incorrect
    Near-synonym: exact
    le bon usage ― the correct usage
    être dans la bonne direction ― to be going the right way, to be heading the right way
    Choisissez la bonne réponse. ― Choose the correct response.
  3. (slang, slightly derogatory, of a woman) sexy, hot, smoking hot
    Cette meuf est fin bonne !
    That chick is fine as hell!

Usage notes

  • Only three French adjectives have an irregular comparative:
    ¹ bon ⇒ meilleur (“better”)
    ² mauvais ⇒ pire (“worse”)
    ³ petit ⇒ moindre (“smaller; lesser”)

Antonyms

Derived terms

Noun

bon m (plural bons)

  1. voucher, ticket, coupon
    Synonyms: coupon, billet

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Dutch: bon
  • → German: Bon

Interjection

bon

  1. well; OK

Derived terms

Further reading

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin bonus (“good”).

Noun

bon

  1. good

Adjective

bon m (feminine buine)

  1. good

Antonyms

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese bom. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bon.

Adjective

bon

  1. good

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bon (“good”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

bon

  1. good

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Noun

bon (plural bonok)

  1. voucher

Usage notes

It is usually pronounced with a long o but its spelling is bon rather than bón.

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information possessor, single possession ...

Further reading

  • bon in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • bon in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch bon (“receipt”), from French bon, from Middle French bon, from Old French bon, from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos. Cognate of Danish bon (“receipt”).

Noun

bon (plural bon-bon)

  1. receipt
    Synonyms: faktur, invois, kuitansi, resi, resit (Malay), tanda terima
Derived terms
  • mengebon

Etymology 2

From Dutch bond (“bond”), from Middle Dutch bund, from Proto-Germanic *bandaz, *bandiz (“band, fetter”). Cognate of English bond.

Noun

bon (plural bon-bon)

  1. union, association, guild
    Synonym: perserikatan

Further reading

Interlingua

Adjective

bon (comparative melior, superlative le melior or le optime)

  1. good

Japanese

Romanization

bon

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぼん

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese bom.

Adjective

bon

  1. good

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

bon m (feminine singular bona, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bones)

  1. able
  2. good
  3. probable

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

Interjection

bon

  1. "well, OK"

Usage notes

Used to mark the resumption or end of a conversation.

Synonyms

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ms

Etymology

Borrowed from English bond.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbon/ [ˈbon]
  • Hyphenation: bon

Noun

bon (Jawi spelling بون, plural bon-bon or bon2)

  1. (finance) bond: documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract.

Synonyms

  • obligasi (rare, predominantly in Indonesia)

Further reading

  • "bon" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English bān, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

bon (plural bon or bones)

  1. bone
Derived terms
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

Adjective

bon

  1. alternative form of boun

Middle French

Alternative forms

  • bõ (some manuscripts)

Etymology

From Old French bon.

Adjective

bon m (feminine singular bonne, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bonnes) (comparative meilleur, superlative meilleur)

  1. good (virtuous, having positive qualities)

Descendants

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bǫrn, plural of barn.

Noun

bon n pl (definite bona or boni)

  1. plural of bån
    • 1984, Jon Hvitsand, Soga om Hørteverket, [Hørte]: Hørtesogelaget, page 64:
      På Ulefoss blei det set i gang ein slags skule for bona på verket.
      At Ulefoss, a school was opened for the children of the factory.
    • 1890, Jørund Telnes, Netar [Nights], Kristiania, page 53:
      „Mat!“ ropar Boni og tuttrar og græt.
      "Food!" cry the children, whining and weeping.
    • 1853, Ivar Aasen, Prøver af Landsmaalet i Norge, Christiania: Carl C. Werner & Comp., page 55:
      Bon'i deires va ſtore, aa dei eldſte va vakſne jamvæl
      Their children were big, the eldest even were grownups.
    • c. 1770, Edvard Storm, “Åt Monken”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 241:
      Vælkomne te Vaagaa mæ Kiæring aa Bon
      Welcome to Vågå with wife and children
    • 1704, “Hap up qvar Ejn Bærge tind”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 66:
      utu Likna ingen hejl [e]l End fær mæ Bonom
      From likeness none rather than one gets with [his] children

Etymology 2

Verb

bon

  1. imperative of bone

References

  • Ivar Aasen (1850), “Barn”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎ (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Old English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *bōn, from Proto-Germanic *bōnō or *bōnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”).

Noun

bōn f (nominative plural bōna)

  1. ornament
  • bōnian
  • ġebōned

Etymology 2

Shortening of bōgan.

Verb

bōn

  1. alternative form of bōgan

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin bonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bon m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bone, comparative meillor, superlative meillor)

  1. good (not evil)
  2. good (not of poor quality)

Declension

More information Case, masculine ...

Descendants

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

bon m (feminine singular bona, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bonas)

  1. good (not evil)
  2. good (not of poor quality)

Descendants

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese bom and Kabuverdianu bon.

Adjective

bon

  1. good

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Borrowed from French bon.

Pronunciation

Noun

bon m inan

  1. coupon, voucher (piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services)
    Synonyms: kupon, kwit, talon, voucher

Declension

Declension of bon
More information singular, plural ...

Further reading

  • bon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bon, ultimately from Latin bonus. Doublet of bun, bonă, and bonus.

Noun

bon n (plural bonuri)

  1. voucher, ticket, coupon

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Slovene

Etymology

From German Bon.

Pronunciation

Noun

bọ̑n m inan

  1. voucher

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
More information Masculine inan., hard o-stem, nom. sing. ...

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boŋ/, /bon/, [bʊ̞̃ŋ], [bɔ̝ŋ]

Noun

bon

  1. tree

Derived terms

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

bon

  1. inflection of bo:
    1. definite singular
    2. indefinite plural

Tày

Pronunciation

Noun

bon (Nôm form 蕡)

  1. taro
    đảng chin bon on chin phước
    When cold, eat taro; when warm, eat eddo
    lồng khuổi sla bon ― to go down the stream to find taro
  2. leafstalk of certain types of potatoes
    bon phước hom ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

References

  • Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English bone.

Noun

bon

  1. bone

Venetan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin bonus. Compare Italian buono.

Adjective

bon (feminine singular bona, masculine plural boni, feminine plural bone) (Alternative masculine plural: buni)

  1. good

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

bon • (𨁼)

  1. to roll (on wheels)
    • 2001, Chu Lai, chapter 7, in Cuộc đời dài lắm, NXB Văn học:
      Nói xong hắn lại ra xe, chiếc xe máy vào loại sang và đẹp nhất thị trấn không đưa hắn trở về nhà mà bon thẳng xuống khu lán của Hà Thương.
      After he finished speaking, he went out to his vehicle, and the motorbike, one of the fanciest and most beautiful in town, did not take him home but instead drove straight down to Hà Thương's hovel.

Volapük

Noun

bon (nominative plural bons)

  1. bean

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

  • bonik

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French bon, from Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

bon

  1. good

Antonyms

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