bon voyage

English

English phrasebook

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Etymology

Borrowed from French bon voyage (“bon voyage, (have a) good journey”), from bon (“good”) + voyage (“journey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɒn vwaɪˈɑːʒ/, /ˌbɒn vɔɪˈɑːʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Interjection

bon voyage

1. Used to wish someone a good journey.
   • 2009 May 13, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Up, spoken by newsreel announcer (David Kaye), Walt Disney Pictures & Pixar Animation Studios:

     Bon voyage, Charles Muntz, and good luck capturing the monster of Paradise Falls!

   • 2013, Crying, “Vacation”, in Get Olde‎^[1]:

     Bon Voyage / Forget that olde worlde / I'm inching away from the darkest slump of my life / And I don't know if I'm coming back

Translations

wish of good journey

• Afrikaans: veilige reis, voorspoedige reis
• Albanian: rrugë të mbarë, udhë të mbarë
• Amharic: ምልካም ጉዞ (məlkam guzo)
• Arabic: رِحْلَة سَعِيدَة (riḥla saʕīda), رِحْلَة مُوَفَّقَة (riḥla muwaffaqa)

  Moroccan Arabic: الله يوصلك على خير (allah ywaṣṣlak ʕla ḵīr), طريق السلامة (ṭrīq es-slāma, ṭrīq es-salāma)

• Armenian: բարի ճանապարհ (bari čanaparh)
• Azerbaijani: yaxşı yol
• Basque: bidaia on
• Belarusian: до́брай даро́гі (dóbraj daróhi)
• Bengali: শ্তভযাত্রা (śtobhojatra)
• Bulgarian: на до́бър път (na dóbǎr pǎt)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Carpathian Rusyn: щастли́ву путь (ščastlývu putʹ)
• Catalan: bon viatge
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 一路平安 (jat¹ lou⁶ ping⁴ on¹), 一路順風 / 一路顺风 (jat¹ lou⁶ seon⁶ fung¹)

  Hokkien: 順風 / 顺风 (sūn-hong), 祝你旅途平安 (chiok lí lú-tô͘ pêng-an)

  Mandarin: 一路平安 (zh) (yīlù-píng'ān), 一路順風 / 一路顺风 (zh) (yīlù-shùnfēng)

• Czech: šťastnou cestu
• Danish: god rejse
• Dutch: goede reis
• Esperanto: bonan vojaĝon
• Estonian: head teed, head reisi
• Faroese: góða ferð
• Finnish: hyvää matkaa
• French: bon voyage (fr)
• Galician: boa viaxe f, leva boa andanza f
• Georgian: კეთილ მგზავრობას გისურვებთ (ḳetil mgzavrobas gisurvebt)
• German: gute Reise, gute Fahrt
• Greek: καλό ταξίδι (el) (kaló taxídi)
• Hebrew: נסיעה טובה (nesi'á tová), דרך צלחה (derekh tzleha)
• Hindi: शुभ यात्रा (śubh yātrā)
• Hungarian: jó utat, jó utat kívánok
• Icelandic: góða ferð
• Ido: bona voyajo
• Indonesian: selamat jalan (id)
• Ingrian: hyvvää matkaa
• Irish: go n-éirí an bóthar leat (to one person), go n-éirí an bóthar libh (to two or more people)
• Italian: buon viaggio
• Jamaican Creole: cool runnings
• Japanese: どうぞご無事で (dōzo go-buji de), 道中ご無事で (dōchū go-buji de), ご機嫌よう (go-kigen-yō), よい旅を (yoi tabi o), 一路平安を祈る (ichiroheian o inoru) (old fashioned)
• Kannada: ಶುಭ ಪ್ರಯಾಣ (kn) (śubha prayāṇa)
• Kazakh: жолыңыз болсын (jolyñyz bolsyn)
• Khmer: សុយាត្រា (so’yietraa)
• Korean: 잘 다녀 오십시오 (jal danyeo osipsio)
• Ladino:

  Latin: kaminos de leche i miel (literally “roads of milk and honey”)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: bonum cursum
• Latvian: laimīgu ceļu
• Lithuanian: laimingos kelionės, geros kelionė
• Macedonian: среќен пат (sreḱen pat)
• Malagasy: soava dia
• Malay: selamat jalan (ms)
• Maltese: il-vjaġġ it-tajjeb
• Mòcheno: guata roas
• Mongolian: сайн яваарай (sajn javaaraj)
• Norwegian: god reise, god tur
• Persian: سفر به‌خیر (safar be-xeyr), به سلامت (be salâmat)
• Polish: szczęśliwej podróży (pl), szczęśliwej drogi (pl), szerokiej drogi (pl)
• Portuguese: boa viagem
• Romani: laćho drom
• Romanian: călătorie plăcută, drum bun
• Russian: до́брого пути́ (dóbrovo putí), счастли́вого пути́ (sčastlívovo putí)
• Scottish Gaelic: turas math dhut, turas math leat (informal singular), turas math dhuibh, turas math leibh (formal and/or plural)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срећан пут, сретан пут

  Roman: srećan put, sretan put

• Sinhalese: සුබ ගමන් (suba gaman)
• Slovak: šťastnú cestu
• Slovene: srečno pot
• Spanish: buen viaje
• Swahili: safari njema
• Swedish: trevlig resa, lycklig resa, kom väl hem
• Tagalog: maligayang paglalakbáy
• Tamil: இனிய பயணம் தொடரட்டும் (iṉiya payaṇam toṭaraṭṭum)
• Telugu: శుభ ప్రయాణం (śubha prayāṇaṁ)
• Thai: ขอให้เดินทางโดยสวัสดิภาพ (th) (kŏrhâi derntaang doisàwàtdìpâap), เดินทางอย่างปลอดภัย (derntaang yàangbplòtpai)
• Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: iyi yolculuklar, (informal) güle, güle
• Ukrainian: щасли́вої доро́ги (ščaslývoji doróhy)
• Urdu: آپ کا سفر اچھا گزرے (āp kā safr acchā guzre), سفر بخیر (safar baxair)
• Uyghur: سىزگە ئاق يول بولسۇن (sizge aq yol bolsun), سىزگە ئاق يول تىلەيمەن (sizge aq yol tileymen)
• Vietnamese: lên đường bình an
• Walloon: bon voyaedje (wa)
• Welsh: rhwydd hynt
• Yiddish: אַ גליקלעכע רײַזע (a gliklekhe rayze)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃ vwa.jaʒ/

• Audio:

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Interjection

bon voyage

1. bon voyage, have a good journey, have a good trip

See also

• bonne route

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French bon voyage (“bon voyage”)

Interjection

bon voyage

1. bon voyage, have a good journey, have a good trip

   Synonym: selamat jalan

Further reading

• “bon voyage” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.