jamón

Borrowed from French jambon, an augmentative of jambe (“leg”). In this sense, displaced earlier pernil. Cognate with English gammon.

• IPA^(key): /xaˈmon/ [xaˈmõn]

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ja‧món

jamón m (plural jamones)

1. ham (the thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat)
2. ham, gammon (meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food)

In Spanish, "jamón" is the generic word for any kind of ham, but the word borrowed into English is only used to refer to Spanish dry-cured hams.

• → Asturian: xamón
• → Bikol Central: hamon
• → Cebuano: hamon
• → English: jamon
• → Galician: xamón
• → Hiligaynon: hamon
• → Russian: хамо́н (xamón)
• → Tagalog: hamón
• → Taos: xomúnenemą
• → Yogad: hamon

• “jamón”, 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

• mojan, monja