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Bonin
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English
Etymology 1
Proper noun
s
en French.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Bonin is the 8226th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4034 individuals. Bonin is most common among White (93.63%) individuals.
Etymology 2
From en fr Bonin in an 1817 monograph on the islands by the French scholar Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat Rémusat, misunderstanding en ja 無人島 desert island mujintō as a proper name for the Ogasawaras, misreading the kanji as the related pronunciation buninjima, and then mistranscribing the vowel into French.
Proper noun
en archipelago in the western ocean/Pacific Ocean, part of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc administered as en subprefecture pref/Tokyo c/Japan Ogasawara.
Synonyms
en Ogasawara en island Islands Japanese contexts
Hypernyms
en Ogasawara en subprefecture Subprefecture the prefecture includes the nearby Volano Islands
Hyponyms
en Chichijima, en Hahajima
Derived terms
en Bonin greenfinch Bonin Islander Bonin Islands Boniner Boninite Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc
Translations
archipelago in the Western Pacific, part of Japan
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 小笠原
Japanese: ja 小笠原 おがさわら, Ogasawara, ja 小笠原諸島 おがさわらしょとう, Ogasawara Shotō, ja 小笠原群島 おがさわらぐんとう, Ogasawara Guntō
Marathi: mr बोनिन
References
Hyman Kublin, "The Discovery of the Bonin Islands: A Reexamination", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 43, No. 1 (March 1953), pp. 27–46.
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, "Description d'un Groupe d'Îles Peu Connues", Journal des sçavans Journal des Savans (July 1817), pp. 387–396.
Anagrams
en binno NOIBN