jamón

See also: jamon

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French jambon, an augmentative of jambe (“leg”). In this sense, displaced earlier pernil. Cognate with English gammon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaˈmon/ [xaˈmõn]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ja‧món

Noun

jamón m (plural jamones)

1. ham (the thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat)
2. ham, gammon (meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food)

Usage notes

In Spanish, "jamón" is the generic word for any kind of ham, but the word borrowed into English is only used to refer to Spanish dry-cured hams.

Derived terms

• ajamonarse
• jamón crudo
• jamón en dulce
• jamón ibérico
• jamón serrano
• jamón York, jamón de York, jamón york
• jamoncillo
• jamonera
• jamonería
• jamonero

 

Descendants

• → Asturian: xamón
• → Bikol Central: hamon
• → Cebuano: hamon
• → English: jamon
• → Galician: xamón
• → Hiligaynon: hamon
• → Russian: хамо́н (xamón)
• → Tagalog: hamón
• → Taos: xomúnenemą
• → Yogad: hamon

Further reading

• “jamón”, 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

Anagrams

• mojan, monja