Bonin

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Bonin^¹

proper noun Bonins

A surname from French.

Bonin^²

Where it comes from

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.

proper noun

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

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name archipelago in the Western Pacific, part of Japan

日本語	小笠原 Ogasawara, 小笠原諸島 Ogasawara Shotō, 小笠原群島 Ogasawara Guntō
中文	小笠原

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@misc{bonin_2026,
  title = {Bonin},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bonin},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}