jabón
Spanish
Alternative forms
- xabon (obsolete)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish xabon, from Latin sāpōnem, sāpō, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xaˈbon/ [xaˈβ̞õn]
Audio (Colombia): (file)
- IPA(key): /ʃaˈbon/ [ʃaˈβ̞õn] (Early Modern Spanish)
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: ja‧bón
Noun
jabón m (plural jabones)
- soap; a bar of soap
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Aymara: jawuna
- → Basque: xaboi
- → Bikol Central: sabon
- → Binukid: sabun
- → Cebuano: sabon
- → Central Tunebo: jabona
- → Chamicuro: shawona
- → Southern Ohlone: hawun
- → Cuyunon: sabon
- → Guaraní: havõ
- → Hiligaynon: habon
- → Ilocano: sabon
- → Isthmus Zapotec: xabú
- →? Malay: sabun (see there for further descendants)
- → Mayo: saábom
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: xapo̱n
- → Mezquital Otomi: xabo
- → O'odham: ṣawoñ
- → Papiamentu: habon
- → Tagalog: sabon
- → Waray-Waray: sabon
- → Japanese: シャボン (shabon)
- → Okinawan: サフン (safun)
- →? Hokkien: 雪文 (sap-bûn)
Further reading
- “jabón”, 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