bombón
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- praline, chocolate confection
- (Colombia) lollipop
- (Mexico) marshmallow
- (figuratively) hottie, cutie, dreamboat, stunner, peach attractive woman or man
Etymology
Borrowed from French bonbon (ball).
Origin
French
bonbon
Gloss
ball
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
玉
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bonbon English
- bonus Latin
- Bonbon German
- bonbon Dutch, Flemish
- bonbon French
- bonbonnière French
- casse-bonbons French
- bombonera Spanish, Castilian
- bombonería Spanish, Castilian
- bombom Portuguese
- bombono Esperanto
- bomboană Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bomm Faroese
- бонбон Bulgarian
- бонбона Macedonian
- bombón Ladino
- dipompong Southern Sotho