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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Nahuatl calpulli (“house”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡalˈpon/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: gal‧pón
Noun
galpón m (plural galpones)
- (Latin America) barn, shed
- Synonyms: cobertizo, tinglado, barraca, rancho
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
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