galon

Unadapted borrowing from French galon.

• enPR: gă-lôɴ′
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡæˈlɔ̃ː/, /ɡaˈlɔ̃ː/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): (without the cot–caught merger) /ɡæˈlɔ/, [ɡæˈlɔ̃], (cot–caught merger) /ɡæˈlɑ/, [ɡæˈlɑ̃]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): (standard) /ɡæˈlɒ̃/, (dialectal) /ɡæˈlɑ̃/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɡæˈlõː/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɡɛˈlõː/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈlɔ̃/
• (India) IPA^(key): (without the cot–caught merger) /ɡa(ː)ˈlɔ̃ː/, (cot–caught merger) /ɡa(ː)ˈlɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃ː
• Hyphenation: ga‧lon

galon (countable and uncountable, plural galons)

1. Alternative form of galloon.

• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “galon, n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes II (D–Hoon), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 2443, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “galon, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 2443, column 2.

From French gallon.

galon

1. gallon

From English gallon, from Old Northern French galun, galon (“liquid measure”) (compare Old French jalon), from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish *galla, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

• Hyphenation: ga‧lon
• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈlon/ [ɡɐˈl̪on̪]

galon

1. a gallon; a unit of volume equal to 3 pints
2. a jug

• ginalon

Borrowed from Spanish galón.

• Hyphenation: ga‧lon
• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈlon/ [ɡaˈl̪on̪]

galón

1. gallon

Borrowed from English gallon.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡalon]

galon m inan

1. gallon (unit of volume)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡalon/
• Rhymes: -alon
• Syllabification: ga‧lon
• Hyphenation: gal‧o‧n

galon

1. accusative singular of galo

From galonner (“to braid”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.lɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

galon m (plural galons)

1. braid
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 5, in Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, first part, page 46:

     Un papier jaune-serin, relevé dans le haut par une guirlande de fleurs pâles, tremblait tout entier sur sa toile mal tendue; des rideaux de calicot blanc, bordés d'un galon rouge, s'entrecroisaient le long des fenêtres, et sur l'étroit chambranle de la cheminée resplendissait une pendule à tête d'Hippocrate, entre deux flambeaux d'argent plaqué, sous des globes de forme ovale.

     A canary-yellow wallpaper, picked out in the top with a garland of pale flowers, trembled all over its loosely-stretched canvas; white calico curtains, edged with red braid, criss-crossed along the windows, and on the narrow mantelpiece a clock with a bust of Hippocrates shone resplendent between two plated silver candlesticks, under oval-shaped glass domes.

2. (military) stripe

• prendre du galon

• “galon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• lagon

From Dutch gallon, from English gallon, from Middle English gallon, galoun, galun, from Old Northern French galun, galon (“liquid measure”) (compare Old French jalon), from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish *galla, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡalɔn]
• Hyphenation: ga‧lon

galon (plural galon-galon)

1. gallon:
   1. exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
   2. 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon")
2. 5-gallon water jug

• “galon”, 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

From Dutch gallon.

• (Medan) IPA^(key): [ɡa.lɔn]
• Hyphenation: ga‧lon

galon (plural galon-galon or galon²)

1. (Medan) gas station

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.lɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alɔn
• Syllabification: ga‧lon

Borrowed from English gallon, from Middle English gallon, galoun, galun, from Old Northern French galun, galon, from Late Latin galum, galus, from Vulgar Latin *galla, possibly from Gaulish *galla, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel-.

galon m inan

1. gallon (unit of volume used for liquids)

Borrowed from French galon.

galon m inan (diminutive galonek or galonik)

1. (military) epaulette, shoulder broad, shoulder strap (military insignia)

   Synonyms: epolet, naramiennik, pagon, szlifa

• galon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• galon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French galon.

galon n (plural galoane)

1. gallon

Borrowed from English gallon.

gàlōn m inan (Cyrillic spelling га̀ло̄н)

1. gallon (a unit of volume)

Genericized trademark from the brand name Galon.

galon n or c

1. thick plastic-coated fabric (used in for example rainwear and seats in vehicles)

• galonjacka (“galon jacket”)
• galonbyxor (“galon trousers”)

Borrowed from French galon.

galon c

1. (military) a stripe

• galon in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• galon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• galon in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from Spanish galón.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈlon/ [ɡɐˈlon̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ga‧lon

galón (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜎᜓᜈ᜔)

1. gallon
2. chevron (insignia of military or police rank on the sleeve)
3. multi-gallon water container

• lango, lanog

Borrowed from English gallon.

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈɫon/
• Hyphenation: ga‧lon

galon (definite accusative galonu, plural galonlar)

1. gallon (a unit of volume used for liquids)

From gâl (“enemy”) +‎ -on.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡalɔn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːlɔn/, /ˈɡalɔn/

galon m pl

1. plural of gâl (“enemy”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡalɔn/

galon

1. soft mutation of calon (“heart”)