callejón
Spanish
Etymology
From calleja (“narrow street”) + -ón.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʝeˈxon/ [ka.ʝeˈxõn] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kaʎeˈxon/ [ka.ʎeˈxõn] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kaʃeˈxon/ [ka.ʃeˈxõn] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kaʒeˈxon/ [ka.ʒeˈxõn] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: ca‧lle‧jón
Noun
callejón m (plural callejones)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Tagalog: kalyehon
Further reading
- “callejón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024