pilon
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilon (plural pilons or pilones)
- (Latin America) A conical loaf of sugar.
- (Texas) A gratuity given by tradesmen to customers settling their accounts.
- A heap of tobacco arranged for fermentation.
Synonyms
[edit]- (sugar loaf): panela, pilonce, piloncillo
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pi.lɔ̃/
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Noun
[edit]pilon m (plural pilons)
- pestle
- wooden leg
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- C'est ainsi qu'il déboursa trois cents francs pour une jambe de bois dont elle jugea convenable de faire cadeau à Hippolyte. Le pilon en était garni de liège, et il y avait des articulations à ressort, une mécanique compliquée recouverte d'un pantalon noir, que terminait une botte vernie.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- thigh (the thigh bone of poultry meat)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pilon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
[edit]Indonesian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈpilon/ [ˈpi.lɔn]
- Rhymes: -ilon
- Syllabification: pi‧lon
Adjective
[edit]pilon (comparative lebih pilon, superlative paling pilon)
- pretend not to know
Further reading
[edit]- “pilon”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilon m (plural piloni)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | pilon | pilonul | piloni | pilonii | |
| genitive-dative | pilon | pilonului | piloni | pilonilor | |
| vocative | pilonule | pilonilor | |||
Further reading
[edit]- “pilon”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
Turkish
[edit]Noun
[edit]pilon (definite accusative pilonu, plural pilonlar)
- pylon (a gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple)
Declension
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- English terms borrowed from Spanish
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- Texas English
- French terms suffixed with -on
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French terms with quotations
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ilon
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ilon/2 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian adjectives
- Romanian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
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- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns