bon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bon"

Languages (43)

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Translingual

Symbol

bon

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

Abinomn

Noun

bon

(anatomy) shoulder

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

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

good

Antonyms

mau
mauvois

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈbo̞n]
IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈbɔn]

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

bon

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

Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “bo”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan བོན (bon).

Noun

bon m (plural bons)

Bon (an indigenous Tibetan religion)

Cimbrian

Etymology 1

Preposition

bon

(Mezzaselva) alternative form of von

Etymology 2

Contraction

bon

(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)

receipt

Declension

Declension of *bon*
common gender	singular		plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bon	bonen	boner	bonerne
genitive	bons	bonens	boners	bonernes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥oˀn]

Verb

bon

imperative of bone

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋˀ]

Verb

bon

imperative of bone

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)

receipt
(Netherlands) ticket, fine (e.g. for speeding)
Synonym: bekeuring
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)

good
Antonym: môvés
right, correct

Derived terms

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?

Proto-Italic *dwenos

Archaic Latin duenos

Old Latin duonus

Latin bonus

Old French bon

Middle French bon

French bon

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‿/
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Rhymes: -ɔ̃
Homophones: bond, bonds, bons

Adjective

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

good
Antonym: mauvais

Near-synonym: bien
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.
(slang, derogatory, of a woman) sexy, hot, smoking hot
Synonyms: chaude, sexy, canon

Cette meuf est putain de bonne !
That chick is fine as hell!
(dated, of someone) generous, agreeable; nice, fine

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

Descendants

Guianese Creole: bon
Haitian Creole: bon

Noun

bon m (plural bons)

voucher, ticket, coupon
Synonyms: coupon, billet

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Dutch: bon
→ German: Bon

Interjection

bon

well; OK

Derived terms

ah bon

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɔn/, [ˈbɔŋ]

Noun

bon

good

Adjective

bon m (feminine buine)

good

Antonyms

trist, cjatîf, brut, frait

Related terms

ben
bontât

Guianese Creole

Etymology

From French bon.

Adjective

bon

good
Antonym: mové

References

Barthelemi, Georges (1995), Dictionnaire Pratique Créole Guyanais - Français [Practical Guianese Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Cayenne: Ibis Rouge Éditions, →ISBN, page 57

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese bom. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bon.

Adjective

bon

good

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bon (“good”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɔ̃/
Audio: (file)

Adjective

bon

good

References

Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 28

Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈboːn]^[2]
Rhymes: -on

Noun

bon (plural bonok)

voucher

Usage notes

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in *-o-*, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	bon	bonok
accusative	bont	bonokat
dative	bonnak	bonoknak
instrumental	bonnal	bonokkal
causal-final	bonért	bonokért
translative	bonná	bonokká
terminative	bonig	bonokig
essive-formal	bonként	bonokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	bonban	bonokban
superessive	bonon	bonokon
adessive	bonnál	bonoknál
illative	bonba	bonokba
sublative	bonra	bonokra
allative	bonhoz	bonokhoz
elative	bonból	bonokból
delative	bonról	bonokról
ablative	bontól	bonoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	boné	bonoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	bonéi	bonokéi

Possessive forms of *bon*
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	bonom	bonjaim
2nd person sing.	bonod	bonjaid
3rd person sing.	bonja	bonjai
1st person plural	bonunk	bonjaink
2nd person plural	bonotok	bonjaitok
3rd person plural	bonjuk	bonjaik

Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?

Proto-Italic *dwenos

Archaic Latin duenos

Old Latin duonus

Latin bonus

Old French bon

Middle French bon

French bonbor.

Dutch bonbor.

Indonesian bon

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)

receipt
Synonyms: faktur, invois, kuitansi, resi, resit (Malay), tanda terima

Derived terms

mengebon

Related terms

bonus

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)

union, association, guild
Synonym: perserikatan

Interlingua

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

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

good

Istriot

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bonus.

Adjective

bon

good, nice

References

Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, pages 126-127
Cergna, Sandro (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC

Japanese

Romanization

bon

Rōmaji transcription of ぼん

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese bom.

Adjective

bon

good

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

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

Luxembourgish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [bɔ̃ː]

Interjection

bon

"well, OK"

Usage notes

Used to mark the resumption or end of a conversation.

Synonyms

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

bon

Wikipedia ^ms

Etymology

Borrowed from English bond.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

Synonyms

obligasi (rare, predominantly in Indonesia)

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): /bɔ̝ːn/
IPA^(key): /bɑːn/ (Early Middle English)
IPA^(key): /baːn/ (Northern)

Noun

bon (plural bon or bones)

bone

Derived terms

Descendants

English: bone
Geordie: 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

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)

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)

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

imperative of bone

References

Ivar Aasen (1850), “Barn”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎^[4] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /boːn/
Rhymes: -oːn

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)

ornament

Related terms

Etymology 2

Shortening of bōgan.

Verb

bōn

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 (feminine bone, comparative meillor, superlative meillor)

good (not evil)
good (not of poor quality)

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	bons	bone	bon
singular	oblique	bon	bone		bone	bon
plural	subject	bon	bones		bon
plural	oblique	bons	bones		bones	bon

Related terms

bien
bonté / bunté

Descendants

Middle French: bon
- French: bon
Picard: boin
Walloon: bon
→ Middle English: boon (see there for further descendants)

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

bo

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

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

good (not evil)
good (not of poor quality)

Descendants

Occitan: bon

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese bom and Kabuverdianu bon.

Adjective

bon

good

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

bon

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?

Proto-Italic *dwenos

Archaic Latin duenos

Old Latin duonus

Latin bonus

Old French bon

Middle French bon

French bonbor.

Polish bon

Borrowed from French bon.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɔn/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɔn
Syllabification: bon
Homophone: Bonn

Noun

bon m inan

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

	singular	plural
nominative	bon	bony
genitive	bonu	bonów
dative	bonowi	bonom
accusative	bon	bony
instrumental	bonem	bonami
locative	bonie	bonach
vocative	bonie	bony

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

bon n (plural bonuri)

voucher, ticket, coupon

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bon	bonul	bonuri	bonurile
genitive-dative	bon	bonului	bonuri	bonurilor
vocative	bonule		bonurilor

Slovene

Etymology

From German Bon.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bóːn/

Noun

bọ̑n m inan

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.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	bón
gen. sing.	bóna
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bón	bóna	bóni
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bóna	bónov	bónov
dative (dajȃlnik)	bónu	bónoma	bónom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	bón	bóna	bóne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bónu	bónih	bónih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bónom	bónoma	bóni

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbon/ [ˈbõn]
Rhymes: -on
Syllabification: bon

Adjective

bon (feminine bona, masculine plural bones, feminine plural bonas)

obsolete form of bueno

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boom.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bon

tree

Derived terms

bonbuba (“tree bark”)

Swedish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /buːn/

Noun

bon

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

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate to Northern Kurdish ban (“roof”), Persian بام (“roof”).

Noun

bon

attic
roof

Taulil

Noun

bon

sister

References

Meng, Chenxi (2018), A Grammar of Tulil (PhD thesis)‎^[7], page 8

Tày

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bon (Nôm form 蕡)

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
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]‎^[8][9] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[10] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English bone.

Noun

bon

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)

good

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Verb

bon • (𨁼) (augmentative reduplication bon bon)

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.
to go in a rush, to hurry
- 2006, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Lục Vân Tiên, Nhà xuất bản Đồng Nai:
  Tiên rằng: "Bớ chú cõng con!
  Việc chi nên nỗi bon bon chạy hoài?"
  Tiên asked: "Hey you who are carrying the child!
  What matters so much that you always run so hurriedly?"

Volapük

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bon (genitive bona, plural bons)

bean

Declension

Declension of *bon*
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bon	bons
Genitive	bona	bonas
Dative	bone	bones
Accusative	boni	bonis
Predicative¹	bonu	bonus
Vocative	o bon	o bons

Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Derived terms

bonik

Walloon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɔ̃/

Adjective

bon

good

Antonyms

måva, mwais

Translingual

Symbol

See also

Abinomn

Noun

Bourguignon

Etymology

Adjective

Antonyms

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adjective

Usage notes

Related terms

References

Etymology 2

Noun

Cimbrian

Etymology 1

Preposition

Etymology 2

Contraction

Danish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Further reading

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Verb

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Adjective

Derived terms

Related terms

References

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Usage notes

Antonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

Interjection

Derived terms

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Adjective

Antonyms

Related terms

Guianese Creole

Etymology

Adjective

References

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

Adjective

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective