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Obon
See also:
öbon
English
Etymology
From
Japanese
お盆
(
おぼん, Obon
)
.
Proper noun
Obon
(
Buddhism
)
A Japanese
festival
to honour the spirits of one's
ancestors
.
1997
: I was four years old, at the
obon
festival in our village, the time of year when we welcomed back the spirits of the dead. — Arthur Golden,
Memoirs of a Geisha
(Vintage 1998, p. 20)
Synonyms
Bon
Bon Festival
Translations
a Japanese festival
Arabic:
بُون
m
(
būn
)
,
بُون
m
(
bon
)
Chinese:
Mandarin:
盂蘭盆
(zh)
,
盂兰盆
(zh)
(
Yúlánpén
)
,
盂蘭盆會
(zh)
,
盂兰盆会
(zh)
(
Yúlánpénhuì
)
,
日本盆會
,
日本盆会
(
Rìběn pénhuì
)
Japanese:
お盆
(
おぼん, Obon
)
,
盂蘭盆
(
うらぼん, Urabon
)
,
盂蘭盆會
(
うらぼんえ, Urabon'e
)
Korean:
오본
(
Obon
)
Malay:
Obon
Russian:
Обо́н
m
(
Obón
)
Anagrams
Bono
,
NOBO
,
boon
,
noob
Japanese
Romanization
Obon
Rōmaji
transcription of
おぼん
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