bon voyage

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French bon voyage (“bon voyage, (have a) good journey”), from bon (“good”) + voyage (“journey”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌbɒn vwaɪˈɑːʒ/, /ˌbɒn vɔɪˈɑːʒ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Interjection

bon voyage

Used to wish someone a good journey.
- 2009 May 13, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Up, spoken by newsreel announcer (David Kaye), Walt Disney Pictures & Pixar Animation Studios:
  Bon voyage, Charles Muntz, and good luck capturing the monster of Paradise Falls!

Translations

wish of good journey

Afrikaans: veilige reis, voorspoedige reis
Albanian: rrugë të mbarë, udhë të mbarë
Amharic: ምልካም ጉዞ (məlkam guzo)
Arabic: رِحْلَة سَعِيدَة (riḥla saʕīda), رِحْلَة مُوَفَّقَة (riḥla muwaffaqa)
Moroccan Arabic: الله يوصلك على خير (allah ywaṣṣlak ʕla ḵīr), طريق السلامة (ṭrīq es-slāma, ṭrīq es-salāma)
Armenian: բարի ճանապարհ (bari čanaparh)
Azerbaijani: yaxşı yol
Belarusian: до́брай даро́гі (dóbraj daróhi)
Bengali: শ্তভযাত্রা (śtobhojatra)
Bulgarian: на до́бър път (na dóbǎr pǎt)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Carpathian Rusyn: щастли́ву путь (ščastlývu putʹ)
Catalan: bon viatge
Chinese:
Cantonese: 一路平安 (jat¹ lou⁶ ping⁴ on¹), 一路順風／一路顺风 (jat¹ lou⁶ seon⁶ fung¹)

Hokkien: 祝你旅途平安 (chiok lí lú-tô͘ pêng-an)

Mandarin: 一路平安 (zh) (yīlù-píng'ān), 一路順風／一路顺风 (zh) (yīlù-shùnfēng)
Czech: šťastnou cestu
Danish: god rejse
Dutch: goede reis
Esperanto: bonan vojaĝon
Estonian: head teed, head reisi
Faroese: góða ferð
Finnish: hyvää matkaa
French: bon voyage (fr)
Galician: boa viaxe f, leva boa andanza f
Georgian: კეთილ მგზავრობას გისურვებთ (ḳetil mgzavrobas gisurvebt)
German: gute Reise, gute Fahrt
Greek: καλό ταξίδι (el) (kaló taxídi)
Hebrew: נסיעה טובה (nesi'á tová), דרך צלחה (derekh tzleha)
Hindi: शुभ यात्रा (śubh yātrā)
Hungarian: jó utat, jó utat kívánok
Icelandic: góða ferð
Ido: bona voyajo
Indonesian: selamat jalan (id)
Ingrian: hyvvää matkaa
Irish: go n-éirí an bóthar leat (to one person), go n-éirí an bóthar libh (to two or more people)
Italian: buon viaggio
Jamaican Creole: cool runnings
Japanese: どうぞご無事で (dōzo go-buji de), 道中ご無事で (dōchū go-buji de), ご機嫌よう (go-kigen-yō), よい旅を (yoi tabi o), 一路平安を祈る (ichiroheian o inoru) (old fashioned)
Kannada: ಶುಭ ಪ್ರಯಾಣ (kn) (śubha prayāṇa)
Kazakh: жолыңыз болсын (jolyñyz bolsyn)
Khmer: សុយាត្រា (so’yietraa)
Korean: 잘 다녀 오십시오 (jal danyeo osipsio)
Ladino:
Latin: kaminos de leche i miel (literally, "roads of milk and honey")
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: bonum cursum
Latvian: laimīgu ceļu
Lithuanian: laimingos kelionės, geros kelionė
Macedonian: среќен пат (sreḱen pat)
Malay: selamat jalan (ms)
Maltese: il-vjaġġ it-tajjeb
Mòcheno: guata roas
Mongolian: сайн яваарай (sajn javaaraj)
Norwegian: god reise, god tur
Persian: سفر به‌خیر (safar be-xeyr), به سلامت (be salâmat)
Polish: szczęśliwej podróży (pl), szczęśliwej drogi (pl), szerokiej drogi (pl)
Portuguese: boa viagem
Romani: laćho drom
Romanian: călătorie plăcută, drum bun
Russian: до́брого пути́ (dóbrovo putí), счастли́вого пути́ (sčastlívovo putí)
Scottish Gaelic: turas math dhut, turas math leat (informal singular), turas math dhuibh, turas math leibh (formal and/or plural)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: срећан пут, сретан пут

Roman: srećan put, sretan put
Sinhalese: සුබ ගමන් (suba gaman)
Slovak: šťastnú cestu
Slovene: srečno pot
Spanish: buen viaje
Swahili: safari njema
Swedish: trevlig resa, lycklig resa, kom väl hem
Tagalog: maligayang paglalakbáy
Tamil: இனிய பயணம் தொடரட்டும் (iṉiya payaṇam toṭaraṭṭum)
Telugu: శుభ ప్రయాణం (śubha prayāṇaṁ)
Thai: ขอให้เดินทางโดยสวัสดิภาพ (th) (kŏrhâi derntaang doisàwàtdìpâap), เดินทางอย่างปลอดภัย (derntaang yàangbplòtpai)
Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: iyi yolculuklar, (informal) güle, güle
Ukrainian: щасли́вої доро́ги (ščaslývoji doróhy)
Urdu: آپ کا سفر اچھا گزرے (āp kā safr acchā guzre)
Uyghur: سىزگە ئاق يول بولسۇن (sizge aq yol bolsun), سىزگە ئاق يول تىلەيمەن (sizge aq yol tileymen)
Vietnamese: lên đường bình an
Walloon: bon voyaedje (wa)
Welsh: rhwydd hynt
Yiddish: אַ גליקלעכע רײַזע (a gliklekhe rayze)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɔ̃ vwa.jaʒ/
Audio (file)

Interjection

bon voyage

bon voyage, have a good journey, have a good trip

bon voyage

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