embrollón

Spanish

Etymology

From embrollar +‎ -ón.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /embɾoˈʝon/ [ẽm.bɾoˈʝõn]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /embɾoˈʝon/ [ẽm.bɾoˈʝõn]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /embɾoˈʎon/ [ẽm.bɾoˈʎõn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /embɾoˈʃon/ [ẽm.bɾoˈʃõn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /embɾoˈʒon/ [ẽm.bɾoˈʒõn]

• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: em‧bro‧llón

Noun

embrollón m (plural embrollones, feminine embrollona, feminine plural embrollonas)

1. troublemaker

Further reading

• “embrollón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10