# bona
## English
### Alternative forms

* bonar (non-rhotic)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”). Doublet of bonus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbəʊnə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊnə
* Homophone: boner (non-rhotic)

### Adjective

bona (comparative more bona, superlative most bona)
* (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.

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:good

#### Antonyms

* cod (Polari)
* See Thesaurus:bad

#### Derived terms

* bona omi, bona nochy, bona vardering

### Adverb

bona (comparative more bona, superlative most bona)
* (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.

### See also

* bona fide
* bona fides
* bona peritura
* bona roba
* bona vacantia
* nulla bona

### References

* ↑ Baker, Paul (2004) Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 71

### Anagrams

* baon, Bano, oban, Oban, AONB, Abon

## Asturian
### Adjective

bona
* feminine singular of bonu

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɔ.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈbɔ.na]
* Rhymes: -ɔna

### Adjective

bona f
* feminine singular of bo

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin bonus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbo.na/
* Hyphenation: bo‧na
* Rhymes: -ona
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

bona (accusative singular bonan, plural bonaj, accusative plural bonajn)
* good
    Antonym: malbona
** 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta‎:Mensoganto devas havi bonan memoron.A liar has to have a good memory.

## Fanagalo
### Etymology

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

### Verb

bona
* to see

## Ido
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbona/

### Adjective

bona
* good
    Antonym: mala

#### Related terms

* bonajo
* bondezirar
* bondeziro
* bone (“well”)
* bonega (“exquisite”)
* boneso (“goodness”)
* bonfacar
* bonfacemeso
* bonfaceso
* bonhumora
* bonigar (“to improve, ameliorate”)
* bonkonduta
* bonkordia
* bono (“good person”)
* bonodorar
* bonvenanta
* bonvenar
* bonvenez
* bonvenigar (“to welcome”)
* bonveninta
* bonveno (“welcome”, noun)
* bonvivanto
* bonvivar
* bonvolado
* bonvolanta
* bonvolar
* bonvole
* bonvolo (“goodwill, benevolence”)
* bonvoloza

## Italian
### Adjective

bona f
* feminine singular of bono

### Anagrams

* bano

## Ladin
### Adjective

bona f
* feminine singular of bon

## Lala (South Africa)
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

### Verb

-bóna
* to see

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* bona: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbo.na/, [ˈbɔnä]
* bona: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbo.na/, [ˈbɔːnä]
* bonā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbo.naː/, [ˈbɔnäː]
* bonā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbo.na/, [ˈbɔːnä]

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

bona
* inflection of bonus (“good”):
** nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

#### Adjective

bonā
* ablative feminine singular of bonus

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

bona f (genitive bonae); first declension
* A good or brave woman.

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

### Etymology 3

Inflection of the noun bonum.

#### Noun

bona
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of bonum (“a good thing”)

### References

* “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

## Minangkabau
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

bona
* (Payakumbuh) truth; right

### Adverb

bona
* (Payakumbuh) very:
    rumahnyo godang bona
       his house is very big

## Neapolitan
### Adjective

bona f sg
* feminine singular of buono

## Northern Ndebele
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronoun

boná
* they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronoun

boná
* it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

#### Verb

-bóna
* to see

##### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Northern Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

### Verb

bona
* to see

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Middle Low German bonen.

#### Alternative forms

* bone (e-infinitive)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²buː.nɑ/

#### Verb

bona (present tense bonar, past tense bona, past participle bona, passive infinitive bonast, present participle bonande, imperative bona/bon)
* to wax or polish a floor

##### Derived terms

* boning f

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbuː.nɑ/

#### Noun

bona n
* (dialectal) definite plural of bån

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse búnaðr.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²buː.nɑ/

#### Noun

bona m
* (dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of bunad.

### References

* “bona” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* nabo

## Old English
### Noun

bona m
* Alternative form of bana

## Old High German
### Etymology

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

### Noun

bōna f
* (botany) A bean

#### Related terms

* bōnbrī

#### Descendants

* 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: [b̥õːn]
*** Pennsylvania German: Bohn, Buhn

### References

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

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbona/

### Noun

bona
* genitive singular of bun

### Mutation

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

## Old Occitan
### Adjective

bona f
* feminine singular of bon

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

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

### Noun

bōna f
* (botany) A bean

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: bône
** German Low German: Bohn
    Plautdietsch: Boon

## Oromo
### Noun

bona
* winter

## Phuthi
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronoun

boná
* they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronoun

boná
* it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

#### Verb

-bóna
* to see

##### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Rwanda-Rundi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

### Verb

-bóna (infinitive kubóna, perfective -bônye)
* to see
* to find, get

## Serbo-Croatian
### Interjection

bóna (Cyrillic spelling бо́на)
* (Bosnia, informal) a way of addressing a familiar female
    Alo, bona. Šta radiš? ― Hey. What are you doing?

#### See also

* bȍlan

### References

* “bona”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

### Verb

bona
* to see

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

#### Verb

-bôna
* to see

##### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronoun

boná
* they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronoun

boná
* it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

## Spanish
### Adjective

bona f
* feminine singular of bono

## Swazi
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronoun

boná
* they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronoun

boná
* it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

#### Verb

-bóna
* to see

##### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Swedish
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

bona
* definite plural of bo

### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

bona (present bonar, preterite bonade, supine bonat, imperative bona)
* 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
* (rare or archaic) to equip, to decorate, to dress, to wrap (see also ombona)

##### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### See also

* böna
* dona
* ombona

### References

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

### Anagrams

* boan, nabo

## Tswana
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

### Verb

bona
* to see

## Venetan
### Adjective

bona f
* feminine singular of bon

## Xhosa
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɓoːná]

#### Pronoun

boná
* they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɓoːná]

#### Pronoun

boná
* it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

#### Verb

-bôna
* to see

##### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

##### Derived terms

* -bonisa
* -bonisisa

## Zulu
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɓoːná/

#### Pronoun

boná
* they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɓoːná/

#### Pronoun

boná
* it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

##### Inflection
### Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

#### Verb

-bôna
* (transitive) to see
* (transitive) to understand, to comprehend
* (transitive) to recognise
* (transitive) to seek out, to visit

##### Derived terms

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