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bonin

/bˈoʊnɪn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables
bonin
IPA
/bˈoʊnɪn/
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname from French.

name

An archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, part of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc administered as Ogasawara (a subprefecture of Tokyo prefecture, Japan).

Etymology

From French Bonin in an 1817 monograph on the islands by the French scholar Rémusat, misunderstanding Japanese 無人島 (mujintō, “desert island”) as a proper name for the Ogasawaras, misreading the kanji as the related pronunciation buninjima, and then mistranscribing the vowel into French.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Bonin, 無人島

Inflected Forms

Bonins (plural)

Derived Forms

Boniner Boninite

Phrases

Bonin greenfinch Bonin Islander Bonin Islands Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc

Synonyms

Ogasawara Islands

Rhymes With

serotonin melatonin cronin ronin

Questions

How do you pronounce bonin?
The recorded pronunciation is /bˈoʊnɪn/.
What does bonin mean?
A surname from French.
Where does bonin come from?
It is traced to French.

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