cañón

See also: canon, cànon, ĉanon, cânon, and cañon

Spanish

Etymology

From caño (“tube, pipe”) +‎ -ón (augmentative).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈɲon/ [kaˈɲõn]
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -on
Syllabification: ca‧ñón

Noun

cañón m (plural cañones)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ English: canyon
→ Polish: kanion
→ Tagalog: kanyon

Adjective

cañón (invariable)

(Mexico, colloquial) powerful, intense, difficult

Further reading

“cañón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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