caballón

Spanish

Etymology

From caballo +‎ ón

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kabaˈʝon/ [ka.β̞aˈʝõn]

• IPA^(key): /kabaˈʝon/ [ka.β̞aˈʝõn] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /kabaˈʎon/ [ka.β̞aˈʎõn] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /kabaˈʃon/ [ka.β̞aˈʃõn] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /kabaˈʒon/ [ka.β̞aˈʒõn] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ca‧ba‧llón

Noun

caballón m (plural caballones)

1. a ridge of earth, especially between furrows, for irrigation, or as a result of a burial on the ground

Further reading

• “caballón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “caballón”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010