# bont
## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch bont.

### Adjective

bont (attributive bont, comparative bonter, superlative bontste)
* motley, pied, especially in black-and-white

#### Inflection
## Breton
### Etymology

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

### Noun

bont m (plural bontoù)
* plug

#### Inflection
## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch bont, probably from Latin punctus (“striped”) (thus a doublet of punt); compare German bunt. The noun is derived from the adjective: originally the noun referred to furs of variegated color.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bont
* Rhymes: -ɔnt
* Homophone: bond

### Noun

bont n (uncountable, diminutive bontje n)
* fur

#### Derived terms

* beverbont
* bonten
* bonthandel
* bontjas
* bontkraag
* bontmantel
* bontmuts
* eekhoornbont
* hermelijnbont
* imitatiebont
* nertsenbont
* vossenbont

#### Descendants

* → Sranan Tongo: bont

### Adjective

bont (comparative bonter, superlative bontst)
* motley, variegated, multi-colored
* (by extension) mixed, varied, heterogeneous

#### Derived terms

* bonte avond
* bonte kraai
* bonte piet
* bonte strandloper
* bonte vliegenvanger
* bontebok
* bontheid
* grote bonte specht
* het bont maken
* kleine bonte specht
* middelste bonte specht

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: bont
* Jersey Dutch: bant

### References

* ↑ “bontebok”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

## Hungarian
### Etymology 1

From an otherwise unattested stem of unknown origin + -t (causative suffix).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbont]
* Rhymes: -ont

#### Verb

bont
* (transitive) to demolish, pull down
* (transitive) to take apart, disassemble, dismantle, fractionate
* (transitive) to undo, untie, open
* (transitive) to sever, disconnect, split, cut off
* (transitive) to break down (in statistics)

##### Derived terms

* boncol
* bontakozik
* bontatlan
* bontás
* bontogat
* ront-bont
(With verbal prefixes):
* elbont
* felbont
* fölbont
* kibont
* lebont
* megbont
* szétbont

##### Related terms

* bomlik

### Etymology 2

bon (“voucher”) +‎ -t (accusative suffix)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈboːnt]

#### Noun

bont
* accusative singular of bon

### References

* ↑ bont in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* bont in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* bont in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Maltese
### Alternative forms

* bonn (Gozo)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔnt/

### Noun

bont m (plural bnut)
* stem

#### Derived terms

* bannat

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔnt/
* (Lesser Poland):
** (Przemyśl) IPA: [ˈbɔnt]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔnt
* Syllabification: bont

### Noun

bont m inan
* (music) fret (one of the pieces of metal, plastic, or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played)
    Synonym: próg
* (Przemyśl, construction) Synonym of belka

#### Declension
### Further reading

* bont in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* bont in PWN's encyclopedia
* Aleksander Saloni (1908) “bont”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 332

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unknown.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bont/

### Adjective

bont m or n (feminine singular boantă, masculine plural bonți, feminine and neuter plural boante)
* dull, blunt
    Synonym: tocit
    Antonym: ascuțit

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Paliga, Sorin (2024) An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 196

## Welsh
### Noun

bont
* Soft mutation of pont.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.