gallon

See also: Gallon

English

Etymology

From Middle English gallon, galoun, galun, from Old Northern French galun, galon (“liquid measure”) (compare Old French jalon), from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix, “cup”), Sanskrit कलश (kalaśa, “jar, pitcher; measure of liquid”). Related to Old French gille (“wine measure”) (from Medieval Latin gillō (“earthenware jar”)), Old French jale (“bowl”), Old French jaloie (“measure of capacity”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡælən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ælən
• Hyphenation: gal‧lon

Noun

gallon (plural gallons)

1. A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
2. (Britain, Canada) exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
3. (US) 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon")
4. (US) one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon").
5. (in the plural, informal) A large quantity (of any liquid).

   The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.

Translations

a unit of volume used for liquids

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: قالون‎ m (gālōn), جالون‎ m (jālōn)

• Bulgarian: галон m (galon)
• Catalan: galó (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ (sutlilodv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加侖 (zh), 加仑 (zh) (jiālún)

• Czech: galon (cs) m
• Esperanto: galono
• Finnish: gallona (fi)
• French: gallon (fr)
• Galician: galón m
• Georgian: გალონი (galoni)
• German: Gallone (de) f
• Greek: γαλόνι (el) n (galóni)
• Irish: galún m
• Japanese: ガロン (garon)

• Korean: 갤런 (gaelleon)
• Latin: congius m
• Macedonian: га́лон m (gálon)
• Maori: kārani
• Norman: gallon m (Jersey)
• Portuguese: galão (pt) m
• Russian: галло́н (ru) m (gallón)
• Spanish: galón (es) m
• Swahili: galoni (sw)
• Tagalog: galon
• Thai: แกลลอน (th)
• Turkish: galon (tr)
• Vietnamese: galông, ga-lông
• Yiddish: גאַלאָן‎ m (galon)

a Gallon in the U.S. Customary System

• Bulgarian: галон m (galon)
• Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ (sutlilodv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加侖 (zh), 加仑 (zh) (jiālún)

• Czech: galon (cs) m
• Finnish: gallona (fi)

• Georgian: გალონი (galoni)
• German: Gallone (de) f
• Greek: γαλόνι (el) n (galóni)
• Japanese: ガロン
• Macedonian: га́лон m (gálon)
• Russian: галло́н (ru) m (gallón)
• Thai: แกลลอน (th)
• Vietnamese: galông, ga-lông

a large quantity

• Thai: แกลลอน (th), ถัง (th) (tǎng)

Descendants

• → Cebuano: galon
• → Czech: galon
• → Serbo-Croatian: galon
• → Turkish: galon

Further reading

• gallon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Loglan

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French

Noun

gallon m (plural gallons)

1. gallon

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Norman

Etymology

From Old Northern French galon, from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

Noun

gallon m (plural gallons)

1. (Jersey) gallon

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Tatar

Noun

gallon

1. gallon (a unit of volume)

   gallon benzin 3 dollarğa citsä

   if a gallon of gasoline reaches 3 dollars

References

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Declension

    declension of gallon

Nominative	gallon
Genitive	gallonnıñ
Dative	gallonga
Accusative	gallonnı
Locative	gallonda
Ablative	gallonnan