"Bonin" meaning in English

See Bonin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Bonins [plural]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|Bonins}} Bonin (plural Bonins)
  1. A surname from French.
    Sense id: en-Bonin-en-name-gVOdYfSv Categories (other): English surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

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. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|Bonin}} French Bonin, {{der|en|ja|無人島||desert island|tr=mujintō}} Japanese 無人島 (mujintō, “desert island”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Bonin
  1. An archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, part of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc administered as Ogasawara (a subprefecture of Tokyo prefecture, Japan). Categories (place): Islands, Places in Japan, Places in Tokyo, Subprefectures of Tokyo Synonyms: Ogasawara Islands (english: Japanese contexts) Hypernyms: Ogasawara Subprefecture (alt: the prefecture includes the nearby Volano Islands) Hyponyms: Chichijima, Hahajima Derived forms: Boniner, Bonin greenfinch, Bonin Islander, Bonin Islands, Boninite, Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc Translations (archipelago in the Western Pacific, part of Japan): 小笠原 (Japanese), 小笠原諸島 (Japanese), 小笠原群島 (Japanese), बोनिन (bonin) (Marathi)
    Sense id: en-Bonin-en-name-FZHF~Svf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Marathi translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 11 89 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Marathi translations: 20 80
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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