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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from French wagon.
Pronunciation
Noun
vagón m inan (related adjective vagónový, diminutive vagónek)
- car (railroad car; railway carriage)
- Synonym: vůz
- car (subway car)
Declension
Declension of vagón (hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
- “vagón”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “vagón”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “vagón”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Galician
Etymology
First attested in 1876. Borrowed from English wagon.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -oŋ
- Hyphenation: va‧gón
Noun
vagón m (plural vagóns)
- wagon, railroad car
- Synonym: coche
1884, O tío Marcos da Portela, volume 2, number 45, page 1:na compaña dos meus bos amigos Benito das Vacalouras e Martiño de Zamora, metínme nun deses wagós do camiño de ferro d'Ourense a Vigo, i anque fumos nel como sardiñas en banasta, non tivemos queixa, porque neso da comparanza das sardiñas, nosoutros éramos das cabezudas, i as que levábamos á beira eran das escochadas, frescas e pequerrechiñas e cun sal- in the company of my good friends Benito das Vacalouras and Martiño from Zamora, I entered one of those wagons of the railroad from Ourense to Vigo and, even if we travelled packed as sardines, we had no complaint, because on that comparison we were as sardines with head, but those next to us were as beheaded sardines, fresh and small and salted
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French wagon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈɡon/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: va‧gón
Noun
vagón m (plural vagones)
- train car; railroad car; railway carriage
Hyponyms
Descendants
Further reading