bajón
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See also: bajon
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From bajo (“low, not high”) + -ón (augmentative suffix).
Noun
[edit]bajón m (plural bajones)
Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: bahón
Etymology 2
[edit]From baja (“act or event of going down”) + -ón (augmentative suffix).
Noun
[edit]bajón m (plural bajones)
- lull, low, dip, drop (decline)
- blues, slump (lack of spirit)
- estar de bajón ― to be down in the dumps
- Ellipsis of bajón de electricidad (“power outage”).
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bajón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014