galón

See also: galon

Ladin

Noun

galón ? (plural [please provide])

  1. thigh

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡaˈlon/ [ɡaˈlõn]
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: ga‧lón

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English gallon.

Noun

galón m (plural galones)

  1. English or American gallon (a unit of liquid measure equivalent to 4.55 or 3.79 L)
Coordinate terms
  • (English unit): onza (1⁄128 galón), gill (1⁄32 galón), pinta (1⁄8 galones), cuarto (1⁄4 galones), barril (31+1⁄2 galones)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French galon, from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

Noun

galón m (plural galones)

  1. braid
  2. (military) stripe, chevron
    tres galones en su uniforme
    three stripes on his/her uniform
    • 1933, Lino Novás Calvo, Blanco, el negrero:
      En esta refriega, Pedro se ganó un galón
      In this skirmish, Pedro won a stripe
Descendants
  • → Tagalog: galon

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