Boon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.

   “Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers.”

2. isim That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.

   “I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?”

3. isim A prayer; petition.

   “The wofull husbandman doth lowd complaine, / To ſee his whole yeares labor loſt ſo ſoone, / For which to God he made ſo many an idle boone.”

4. isim An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
5. isim A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.

   “A telling story is that of Vikra, who, after practicing severe tapas for many years, called on Śiva, asking him to grant the boon that whosoever's head he would touch, that person would die instantly.”

6. sıfat Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

   “Greedily ſhe ingorg’d without restraint, / And knew not eating Death: Satiate at length, / And hight’nd as with Wine, jocond and boon, / Thus to herſelf ſhe pleaſingly began.”

7. sıfat Kind; bountiful; benign.

   “With mazie error under pendant ſhades / Ran Nectar, viſiting each plant, and fed /Flours worthy of Paradiſe which not nice Art / In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon / Powrd forth profuſe on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / […]”

8. sıfat Good; prosperous.

   “boon voyage”

9. isim The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
10. özel isim A surname
11. özel isim A township in Warrick County, Indiana, United States, named after settler Ratcliff Boon.
12. özel isim A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.