bon

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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

• mau
• mauvois

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɔn]

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.

Related terms

• bé, ben
• bondat

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)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋ]

Noun

bon c (singular definite bonen, plural indefinite boner)

1. receipt

Declension

Further reading

• “bon” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “bon” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥oˀn]

Verb

bon

1. imperative of bone

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋˀ]

Verb

bon

1. imperative of bone

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔn/
• 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

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

• bôna nuet
• bonjorn
• bontât

Related terms

• ben

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃/, (before a vowel) /bɔ.n‿/
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophones: bond, bonds, bons

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

Usage notes

• Only three French adjectives have an irregular comparative:

  ¹ bon ⇒ meilleur (“better”)

  ² mauvais ⇒ pire (“worse”)

  ³ petit ⇒ moindre (“smaller; lesser”)

Antonyms

• mauvais, mal

Derived terms

Related terms

• bien
• bonté

Noun

bon m (plural bons)

1. voucher, ticket, coupon

   Synonyms: coupon, billet

Derived terms

• bon de livraison
• échange de bons procédés

Descendants

• → German: Bon

Interjection

bon

1. well; OK

Derived terms

• ah bon

Further reading

• “bon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin bonus (“good”).

Noun

bon

1. good

Adjective

bon m (feminine buine)

1. good

Antonyms

• trist, cjatîf, brut, frait

Related terms

• ben
• bontât

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese bom. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bon.

Adjective

bon

1. good

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bon (“good”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃/

Adjective

bon

1. good

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈboːn]^[1]
• Rhymes: -on

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

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbon/ [ˈbon]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: bon

Etymology 1

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

Derived terms

Related terms

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

• “bon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• IPA^(key): [bɔ̃ː]

Interjection

bon

1. "well, OK"

Usage notes

Used to mark the resumption or end of a conversation.

Synonyms

• abee
• okee
• sou

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English bond.

Noun

bon (Jawi spelling بون, plural bon-bon)

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 | Malay Literary Reference Centre, 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

• ban, bane, bone, boon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔːn/
• (early) IPA^(key): /bɑːn/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /baːn/

Noun

bon (plural bon or bones)

1. bone

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: bone
• Geordie English: byen
• Scots: bane, bain, bean, been
• Yola: bane

References

• “bōn, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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

• French: bon

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːn/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bǫrn, plural of barn.

Noun

bon n pl (definite bona or boni)

1. plural of bån

Etymology 2

Verb

bon

1. imperative of bone

References

• Ivar Aasen (1850) “Barn”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎^[2] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːn/

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

Related terms

• bōnian
• ġebōned

Etymology 2

Shortening of bōgan.

Verb

bōn

1. Alternative form of bōgan

Old French

Alternative forms

• boen, boun, buen, bun

Etymology

From Latin bonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bun/
• Rhymes: -un

Adjective

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

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

Declension

Related terms

• bien
• bonté / bunté

Descendants

• Middle French: bon
  • French: bon
• Picard: boin
• Walloon: bon
• → Middle English: boon, bone
  • English: boon
  • Scots: boon

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• bo

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

• Occitan: bon

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese bom and Kabuverdianu bon.

Adjective

bon

1. good

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bon, from Middle French bon, from Old French bon, from Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: bon

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

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

Slovene

Etymology

From German Bon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bóːn/

Noun

bọ̑n m inan

1. voucher

Declension

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboŋ/, /ˈbon/, [ˈbʊ̞ŋ], [ˈbɔ̝ŋ]

Noun

bon

1. tree

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːn/

Noun

bon

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

Tày

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓɔn˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓɔn˦]

Noun

bon (蕡)

1. taro

   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]‎^[3][4] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[5] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English bone.

Noun

bon

1. bone

Venetan

Alternative forms

• bòn, bón

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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔŋ˧˧]

Verb

bon • (𨁼)

1. to roll (on wheels)

Volapük

Noun

bon (nominative plural bons)

1. bean

Declension

Derived terms

• bonik

Walloon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃/

Adjective

bon

1. good

Antonyms

• måva, mwais