bon

bon

1. (anatomy) shoulder

From Latin bonus.

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

1. good

• mau
• mauvois

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

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

bon

1. good; alternative form of bo

• The form bon is used as the masculine singular form when the adjective precedes the noun, and bo is used in all other cases.

• bé, ben
• bondat

• “bo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Tibetan བོན (bon).

bon m (plural bons)

1. Bon (an indigenous Tibetan religion)

bon

1. (Mezzaselva) Alternative form of von

bon

1. (Mezzaselva) Alternative form of von

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋ]

bon c (singular definite bonen, plural indefinite boner)

1. receipt

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥oˀn]

bon

1. imperative of bone

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋˀ]

bon

1. imperative of bone

Borrowed from French bon.

• IPA^(key): /bɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

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

• boekenbon
• cadeaubon
• cd-bon
• distributiebon
• kassabon
• op de bon
• pakbon
• parkeerbon
• platenbon
• voedselbon

• → Caribbean Javanese: bon
• → Indonesian: bon
• → Papiamentu: bòn
• → Sranan Tongo: bon

Inherited from Latin bonus.

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

1. good

   Antonym: môvés

2. right, correct

• bôna nuet
• bonjorn
• bontât

• ben

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

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃/, (before a vowel) /bɔ.n‿/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophones: bond, bonds, bons

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!

• Only three French adjectives have an irregular comparative:

  ¹ bon ⇒ meilleur (“better”)

  ² mauvais ⇒ pire (“worse”)

  ³ petit ⇒ moindre (“smaller; lesser”)

• mauvais, mal

• bien
• bonté

bon m (plural bons)

1. voucher, ticket, coupon

   Synonyms: coupon, billet

• bon de livraison
• échange de bons procédés

• → German: Bon

bon

1. well; OK

• ah bon

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

From Latin bonus (“good”).

bon

1. good

bon m (feminine buine)

1. good

• trist, cjatîf, brut, frait

• ben
• bontât

From Portuguese bom. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bon.

bon

1. good

From French bon (“good”).

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃/

bon

1. good

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

bon (plural bonok)

1. voucher

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

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

• bon in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: 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).

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

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”).

bon (first-person possessive bonku, second-person possessive bonmu, third-person possessive bonnya)

1. receipt.

   Synonyms: faktur, invois, kuitansi, resi

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

bon (first-person possessive bonku, second-person possessive bonmu, third-person possessive bonnya)

1. union, association, guild.

   Synonym: perserikatan

• “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.

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

1. good

bon

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぼん

From Portuguese bom.

bon

1. good

From Latin bonus.

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

1. able
2. good
3. probable

Borrowed from English bond.

bon (Jawi spelling بون, plural bon-bon, informal 1st possessive bonku, 2nd possessive bonmu, 3rd possessive bonnya)

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

• obligasi (rare, predominantly in Indonesia)

• “bon” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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

• ban, bane, bone, boon

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

bon (plural bon or bones)

1. bone

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

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

bon

1. Alternative form of boun

• bõ (some manuscripts)

From Old French bon.

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

1. good (virtuous, having positive qualities)

• French: bon

• IPA^(key): /buːn/

From Old Norse bǫrn, plural of barn.

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

bon

1. imperative of bone

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

• IPA^(key): /boːn/

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

bōn f (nominative plural bōna)

1. ornament

• bōnian
• ġebōned

Shortening of bōgan.

bōn

1. Alternative form of bōgan

• boen, boun, buen, bun

From Latin bonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

• IPA^(key): /bun/
• Rhymes: -un

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

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

• bien
• bonté / bunté

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

• bo

From Latin bonus.

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

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

• Occitan: bon

From Portuguese bom and Kabuverdianu bon.

bon

1. good

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: bon

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

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

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

bon n (plural bonuri)

1. voucher, ticket, coupon

From German Bon.

• IPA^(key): /bóːn/

bọ̑n m inan

1. voucher

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

Borrowed from Dutch boom.

bon

1. tree

• IPA^(key): /buːn/

bon

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

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

bon (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)

• 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

From English bone.

bon

1. bone

• bòn, bón

From Latin bonus. Compare Italian buono.

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

1. good

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

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.

bon (nominative plural bons)

1. bean

• bonik

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃/

bon

1. good

• måva, mwais