cañón

From caño (“tube, pipe”) +‎ -ón (augmentative).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɲon/ [kaˈɲõn]

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ca‧ñón

cañón m (plural cañones)

1. (geography) canyon
2. cannon
3. barrel (of a gun), pipe, tube

• → English: canyon
• → Polish: kanion
• → Tagalog: kanyon

cañón (invariable)

1. (Mexico, colloquial) powerful, intense, difficult

• “cañón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28