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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /xaˈʝan/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /xaˈʃan/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /xaˈʒan/
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: ja‧yán
Adjective
jayán (feminine jayana, masculine plural jayanes, feminine plural jayanas)
- huge; beastly; giant
- (El Salvador, Nicaragua, colloquial) lewd, sexual (said of a joke or a person who tells such jokes)
A ese le gusta contar chistes jayanes.- That guy likes telling lewd jokes.
Noun
jayán m (plural jayanes, feminine jayana, feminine plural jayanas)
- (mythology) giant
1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 19:Para convencerse del supersticioso temor que les inspiran, no hay sino ver cómo los más ingenuos y verbosos bajan la voz hasta hacerla apenas perceptible, siempre que tratan de estos asuntos, y cómo jayanes que podrían derribar una torre a puñetazos, miran en torno suyo con mucho inquietud, antes de responder, por miedo de que algún Brujo les esté escuchando.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- huge person; beast; stocky person
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