bawen

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish bán (“untilled land, lea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔːn/
• Homophone: bane

Noun

bawen

1. basecourt, quadrangle

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25