Bonin

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Proper noun edit

Bonin (plural Bonins)

A surname from French.

Statistics edit

According to the 2010 United States Census, Bonin is the 8226^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4034 individuals. Bonin is most common among White (93.63%) individuals.

Etymology 2 edit

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.

Proper noun edit

Bonin

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

Synonyms edit

Ogasawara Islands (Japanese contexts)

Hypernyms edit

Ogasawara Subprefecture (the prefecture includes the nearby Volano Islands)

Hyponyms edit

Chichijima, Hahajima

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

archipelago in the Western Pacific, part of Japan

Japanese: 小笠原, 小笠原諸島, 小笠原群島

References edit

Hyman Kublin, "The Discovery of the Bonin Islands: A Reexamination", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 43, No. 1 (March 1953), pp. 27–46.
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, "Description d'un Groupe d'Îles Peu Connues", Journal des Savans (July 1817), pp. 387–396.

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