The story
- Japanese · derived from凡僧
- Portuguese · derived frombonzo
- French · borrowed frombonze
- English todaybonze
From French bonze, from Portuguese bonzo, from Japanese 凡僧 (bonzō), from Middle Chinese 凡 (bjom, “ordinary”) + 僧 (song, “Buddhist monk”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.