galpón
Appearance
See also: galpon
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Nahuatl calpulli (“house”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]galpón m (plural galpones)
- (Latin America) barn, shed
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “El juguete rabioso”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Me acerqué a un galpón de zinc. No lejos una cuadrilla de peones descargaban bolsas de un vagón, y en aquel lugar el empedrado estaba cubierto de una alfombra amarilla de maíz
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Latin America) storehouse
- Synonym: almacén
- (historical, in the plural) slave quarters
Further reading
[edit]- “galpón”, 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
- “galpón”, 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
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