bona

• bonar (non-rhotic)

Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”),^{[en 1]} from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”). Doublet of bonus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊnə/

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• Rhymes: -əʊnə
• Homophone: boner (non-rhotic)

bona (comparative more bona, superlative most bona)

1. (Polari) Good.
   • 1966, Kenneth Horne, Bona Tattoos (Round the Horne), season 2, spoken by Julian and Sandy (Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams):

     SANDY: Oh, get him! The vanity of the man. Well, p'raps not Nelson then. How about reproductions of great masterpieces?
     JULIAN: A bona idea. Now, let me see...

   • 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:

     Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.

   • 1997, Ian Lucas, “The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, in Anna Livia, Kira Hall, editors, Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, page 90:

     Bona to vada you.

• See Thesaurus:good

• cod (Polari)
• See Thesaurus:bad

• bona omi, bona nochy, bona vardering

bona (comparative more bona, superlative most bona)

1. (Polari) Well.
   • 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Guest House (Round the Horne), season 3, spoken by Julian (Hugh Paddick):

     Order lau your luppers on the strillers bona.

• baon, Bano, oban, Oban, AONB, Abon

bona

1. feminine singular of bonu

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -ɔna

bona f

1. feminine singular of bo

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin bonus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.na/
• Hyphenation: bo‧na
• Rhymes: -ona

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bona (accusative singular bonan, plural bonaj, accusative plural bonajn)

1. good

   Antonym: malbona

   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta‎:

     Mensoganto devas havi bonan memoron.

     A liar has to have a good memory.

From Zulu -bona, from Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

bona

1. to see

Borrowed from Esperanto bona, French bon, Italian buono, Spanish bueno, ultimately from Latin bonus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbona/

bona

1. good

   Antonym: mala

bona f

1. feminine singular of bono

• bano

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bóna

1. to see

• bona: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.na/,
• bona: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.na/,
• bonā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.naː/,
• bonā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.na/,

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bona

1. inflection of bonus (“good”):
   1. nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

bonā

1. ablative feminine singular of bonus

Feminine of the noun bonus (“a good man”).

bona f (genitive bonae); first declension

1. A good or brave woman.

First-declension noun.

Inflection of the noun bonum.

bona

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of bonum (“a good thing”)

• “bona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to meet with good weather: tempestatem idoneam, bonam nancisci
    
  • (ambiguous) to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reward amply; to give manifold recompense for: bonam (praeclaram) gratiam referre
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bona, mala existimatio est de aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to be gifted, talented (not praeditum esse by itself): bona indole (always in sing.) praeditum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) natural advantages: naturae bona
    
  • (ambiguous) to recover one's reason, be reasonable again: ad bonam frugem se recipere
    
  • (ambiguous) to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem
    
  • (ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to squander all one's property: lacerare bona sua (Verr. 3. 70. 164)
    
  • (ambiguous) to confiscate a person's property: bona alicuius publicare (B. G. 5. 54)
    
  • (ambiguous) to restore to a person his confiscated property: bona alicui restituere
    
  • (ambiguous) allow me to say: bona (cum) venia tua dixerim
    
• “bona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “bona”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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bona

1. (Payakumbuh) truth; right

bona

1. (Payakumbuh) very:

   rumahnyo godang bona

   his house is very big

bona f sg

1. feminine singular of buono

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bóna

1. to see

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

bona

1. to see

From Middle Low German bonen.

• bone (e-infinitive)

• IPA^(key): /²buː.nɑ/

bona (present tense bonar, past tense bona, past participle bona, passive infinitive bonast, present participle bonande, imperative bona/bon)

1. to wax or polish a floor

• boning f

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.nɑ/

bona n

1. (dialectal) definite plural of bån

From Old Norse búnaðr.

• IPA^(key): /²buː.nɑ/

bona m

1. (dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of bunad.

• “bona” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• nabo

bona m

1. Alternative form of bana

From Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō, whence also Old Saxon bōna, Old English bēan, Old Norse baun.

bōna f

1. (botany) A bean

• Middle High German: bōne, pōn
  • Alemannic German: Bone
  • Central Franconian: Bunn
    • Hunsrik: Bohn
    • Luxembourgish: Boun
  • East Central German: Bunn
  • German: Bohne
  • Rhine Franconian: Bohn
    • Frankfurterisch:
    • Pennsylvania German: Bohn, Buhn

• "bōna" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbona/

bona

1. genitive singular of bun

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

From Proto-West Germanic *baunu, see also Old English bēan, Old Frisian bāne, Old High German bōna, Old Norse baun.

bōna f

1. (botany) A bean

• Middle Low German: bône
  • German Low German: Bohn

    Plautdietsch: Boon

bona

1. winter

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bóna

1. to see

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bóna (infinitive kubóna, perfective -bônye)

1. to see
2. to find, get

bóna (Cyrillic spelling бо́на)

1. (Bosnia, informal) a way of addressing a familiar female

   Alo, bona. Šta radiš? ― Hey. What are you doing?

• bȍlan

• “bona”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

bona

1. to see

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bôna

1. to see

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

bona f

1. feminine singular of bono

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bóna

1. to see

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

bona

1. definite plural of bo

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

bona (present bonar, preterite bonade, supine bonat, imperative bona)

1. to wax or polish a floor

   en hvirflande vals på slottssalens bonade och försåtligt hala parkettgolf.

   a whirling walz on the waxed and treacherously slippery parquet floor of the castle hall

2. (rare or archaic) to equip, to decorate, to dress, to wrap (see also ombona)

• böna
• dona
• ombona

• bona in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bona in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bona in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• boan, nabo

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

bona

1. to see

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

• IPA^(key):

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

• IPA^(key):

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bôna

1. to see

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• -bonisa
• -bonisisa

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

• IPA^(key): /ɓoːná/

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

• IPA^(key): /ɓoːná/

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

-bôna

1. (transitive) to see
2. (transitive) to understand, to comprehend
3. (transitive) to recognise
4. (transitive) to seek out, to visit

• -bonela (applicative)
• -bonisa (causative)
• -bonisisa (intensive)
• -bonakala (neuter-passive)
• -bonwa (passive)
• -bonana (reciprocal)
• sawubona
• umabonakude