Bonin

Bonin Islands 小笠原群岛[日本]

词形变化

Bonins 复数

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A surname from French.

  2. 1.

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

    小笠原

相关短语

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词源

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.

来源：wiktionary