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bone

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəʊn/
• (General American) enPR: bōn, IPA^(key): /boʊn/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bəʉn/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /bɐʉn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

Etymology 1

From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).

Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.

Alternative forms

• bane, byen (dialectal)

Noun

bone (countable and uncountable, plural bones)

2. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
4. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
5. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
6. A bonefish.
7. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
8. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
9. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
10. (figurative) The framework of anything.
11. An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.

12. (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
13. (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
14. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
15. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
16. (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
17. (figurative) A reward.

Synonyms

• os (medicine)
• (rigid parts of a corset): rib, stay
• (reward): doggy treat

Hypernyms

• skeleton

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

bone (not comparable)

1. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Translations

Verb

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

   Synonyms: debone, unbone

   Coordinate terms: gut, skin
2. To fertilize with bone.
3. To put whalebone into.
4. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

5. (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with

   Related terms: boned, boner
6. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
7. (usually with "up") To study.
8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
9. To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

bone (not comparable)

1. Used before an adjective as an intensifier

See also

• Appendix:Bones

Further reading

• Wikipedia list of bones in the human skeleton

Etymology 2

Unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

Verb

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

1. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French bornoyer (“to look at with one eye, to sight”), from borgne (“one-eyed”).

Verb

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

1. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Etymology 4

Clipping of trombone

Noun

bone (plural bones)

1. (slang) Clipping of trombone.

References

Anagrams

• Beno, Boen, ebon

Afrikaans

Noun

bone

1. plural of boon

Danish

Etymology 1

From Low German and Middle Low German bōnen, from Old Saxon *bōnian, from Proto-West Germanic *bōnijan (“to polish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥oːnə]

Verb

bone (imperative bon, infinitive at bone, present tense boner, past tense bonede, perfect tense har bonet)

1. to polish

Etymology 2

Derived from the noun bon (“receipt”), from French bon (“voucher, ticket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋə]

Verb

bone (imperative bon, infinitive at bone, present tense boner, past tense bonede, perfect tense har bonet)

1. to enter (in the cash register)
2. to charge

Esperanto

Etymology

From bona (“good”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbone/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: bo‧ne

Adverb

bone

1. well

Interjection

bone

1. good, OK, all right, very well

   Synonyms: en ordo, enorde, okej

Hadza

Alternative forms

• bune

Etymology

Borrowed from Sukuma βũne (“four (class XIV)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bone/

Adjective

bone m (masc. plural bunibii, fem. boneko, fem. plural bonebee)

1. four

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto bone (“well”), bona (“good”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbone/

Adverb

bone

1. well
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Related terms

• bona

Italian

Adjective

bone

1. feminine plural of bono

Latin

Adjective

bone

1. vocative masculine singular of bonus

References

• “bone”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bone”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Lindu

Noun

bone

1. sand

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *bōna, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu.

Noun

bône f

1. bean

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: boon
  • Afrikaans: boon
    • → Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: bono
  • Negerhollands: bontśi, boontje, boonschi (from the diminutive)
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: bontsi (archaic)
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bontyis (from the diminutive plural)
  • → Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
    • → Petjo: bontjies, boontjies
  • → Javanese: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
  • → Papiamentu: bonchi, boontsje (from the diminutive)
  • → Sranan Tongo: bonki (from the diminutive)
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: bongki
• Limburgish: boean

Further reading

• “bone”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “bone”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

bone

1. (West Midlands) alternative form of bane

Etymology 2

Noun

bone

1. alternative form of bon

Etymology 3

Noun

bone

1. alternative form of boon

Etymology 4

Adjective

bone

1. alternative form of boon

Etymology 5

Adjective

bone

1. alternative form of boun

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• pōn

Etymology

From Old High German bōna, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈboːnə/

Noun

bōne f

1. bean

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

• 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

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “BÔNE”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "bōne" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

Neapolitan

Adjective

bone f pl

1. feminine plural of buono

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpone/

Verb

bone

1. inflection of botnit:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.nə/

Adjective

bone

1. nominative feminine singular of bon
2. oblique feminine singular of bon

Turkish

Etymology

From French bonnet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.ˈne/
• Hyphenation: bo‧ne

Noun

bone (definite accusative boneyi, plural boneler)

1. (kıyafetler) bathing cap, swim cap, swimming cap.

Declension

Further reading

• bone on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tr

Venetan

Adjective

bone

1. feminine plural of bon

Source: wiktionary.org