malón
See also: malon
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Mapudungun maleu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]malón m (plural malones)
- (Rioplatense, colloquial) crowd
- (colloquial, Bolivia) An impromptu party held without the host's explicit permission.
- (Rioplatense, Chile, Paraguay) Native American raid
- Se preguntaba si el rumor que oía era del viento o de un malón de indios.
- He wondered if the noise he heard was the wind or an Indian raid.
Adjective
[edit]malón (feminine malona, masculine plural malones, feminine plural malonas)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “malón”, 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
malón on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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