different between bidon vs bigon

English

Etymology

From French bidon.

Noun

bidon (plural bidons)

1. (cycling) A water bottle.

Hypernyms

• sports bottle

Anagrams

• Bodin, Bondi, dob in

Czech

Etymology

From French bidon.

Noun

bidon m inan

1. a bidon, occasionally also: a sports bottle
2. (dated, rare) a jerrycan
3. (dated, rare) a canteen (a water bottle used by a soldier)

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bidon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?d?n/
• Hyphenation: bi?don
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

bidon m (plural bidons, diminutive bidonnetje n)

1. A bidon; a sports drinking bottle, especially one used on a bicycle.

Derived terms

• bidonhouder

References

• [1][2]

French

Etymology

From Middle French bidon (“small portable container, sealed and made of wood or metal”), from Old Norse bida, *biða (“container, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *bid?n, *bidjan (“tub, vessel, vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?id?- (“pot, bucket, barrel”), from *b?eyd?- (“to weave, bind”).

Cognate with Icelandic biða (“milkbucket”), Norwegian bide (“churn”), Norwegian bidne (“vessel”), Latin fid?lia (“clay or glass vessel”), Ancient Greek ????? (píthos, “wine barrel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

bidon m (plural bidons)

1. can, tin, canister
   1. milk carton
   2. water bottle
2. (childish) tummy

Descendants

• ? Catalan: bidó
• ? Greek: ??????? (bitóni)
• ? English: bidon
• ? Galician: bidón
• ? Italian: bidone
• ? Khmer: ?????? (biidong)
• ? Polish: bidon
• ? Portuguese: bidão
• ? Romanian: bidon
• ? Russian: ?????? (bidón)
• ? Spanish: bidón

Adjective

bidon (invariable)

1. (slang) rigged

2. (slang) phoney, sham

3. (slang) crap

Derived terms

• bidonville

Further reading

• “bidon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bondi

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese bidão.

Noun

bidon

1. drum

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bidon/

Verb

bidon

1. preterite plural of b?dan

Polish

Etymology

From French bidon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?i.d?n/

Noun

bidon m inan

1. (cycling) water bottle, bidon
2. can, tin, canister

Declension

Further reading

• bidon in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• bidon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bidon, Italian bidone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?don/

Noun

bidon n (plural bidoane)

1. can, tin, canister
2. a canteen (a water bottle used by a soldier)
3. a water bottle
4. (plural only, slang) jugs, cans, breasts

Declension

Synonyms

• (can, canister): matara (regional)

Related terms

• bidonvil

See also

• plosc?

References

• bidon in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Etymology

bi- +? -gon

Pronunciation

• Homophone: bygone

Noun

bigon (plural bigons)

1. (rare) A polygon having two edges and two vertices.

Synonyms

• digon (more common), biangle, diangle

Anagrams

• Gobin, bingo, bog in, boing