bon

bon

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bine terms

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

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

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/

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• 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

• → 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‿/

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• 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

• Haitian Creole: bon

bon m (plural bons)

1. voucher, ticket, coupon

   Synonyms: coupon, billet

• → Dutch: bon
• → 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/

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bon

1. good

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈboːn]^[2]
• Rhymes: -on

bon (plural bonok)

1. voucher

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

• 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 2026).

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

bon (plural bon-bon)

1. receipt

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

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

bon (plural bon-bon)

1. union, association, guild

   Synonym: perserikatan

• “bon”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

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

1. good

Inherited from Latin bonus.

bon

1. good, nice

• 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

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

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

• IPA^(key): [bɔ̃ː]

bon

1. "well, OK"

Used to mark the resumption or end of a conversation.

• abee
• okee
• sou

Borrowed from English bond.

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

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

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 (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), 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): /bɔ̝ːn/
• IPA^(key): /bɑːn/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA^(key): /baːn/ (Northern)

bon (plural bon or bones)

1. bone

• English: bone
• Geordie: 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^[4] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

• IPA^(key): /boːn/
• Rhymes: -oːn

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 (see there for further descendants)

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: bon
• Homophone: Bonn

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^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “bon”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)

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

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

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

1. obsolete form of bueno

• “bon”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Dutch boom.

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

bon

1. tree

• IPA^(key): /buːn/

bon

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

bon

1. sister

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

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

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)

• 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

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) (augmentative reduplication bon bon)

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.

2. 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?"

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

bon (genitive bona, plural bons)

1. bean

• bonik

• “bon”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃/

bon

1. good

• måva, mwais