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Bon

1 American  
[bon, bawn] / bɒn, bɔ̃ /

noun

  1. Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943.

Bon 2 American  
[bawn] / bɔn /

noun

  1. an annual festival of the Japanese Buddhists, welcoming ancestral spirits to household altars.

Bön 3 American  
[bohn] / boʊn /

noun

  1. a shamanistic Tibetan sect, absorbed by the first Buddhist sects of the 7th century and later.

Bon 1 British  
/ bɔːn /

noun

  1. Also called: Feast of Lanterns.   Festival of Lanterns.  an annual festival celebrated by Japanese Buddhists

    1. the pre-Buddhist priests of Tibet or one such priest

    2. their religion

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Bon 2 British  
/ bɒn /

noun

  1. a peninsula of NE Tunisia

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Etymology

Origin of Bon

< Japanese, originally Urabon < Chinese version of Sanskrit ullambana literally, hanging upside down (a metaphor for the suffering brought on by physical desires)

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