ぼんぼん

See also: ほんぼん, ほんぽん, ぽんぽん, and ボンボン

Japanese

Etymology 1

Reduplication of 坊(ぼん) (bon, “boy”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ぼんぼん [bòńbóꜜǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [bõ̞mbõ̞ɴ]

Noun

ぼんぼん • (bonbon) 

  1. (derogatory) well-off and naive boy or young man from a prestigious family

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ぼんぼん or ボンボン • (bonbon)  (optionally as ぼんぼんと (bonbon to))

  1. (onomatopoeia) bang, boom (e.g. of bombs); bong (e.g. of large bells)
  2. (ideophonic) fiercely; vigorously

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of ぼんぼん – see the following entries.
【ボンボン】
[noun] bonbon (candy)
(This term, ぼんぼん (bonbon), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 凡々, 盆々, 梵本.)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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