cajón

== English == === Etymology === From Spanish cajón, augmentative of caja (“box”). Doublet of cajon, caisson, and cassone. === Pronunciation === (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /kəˈhoʊn/ === Noun === cajón (plural cajóns or cajones) (music) A box-shaped percussion instrument played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes various implements. ==== Derived terms ==== cajonist ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === cajón on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cajón. Doublet of caixão (“coffin”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ca‧jón === Noun === cajón m (plural cajones) (music) cajón (box-shaped percussion instrument) == Spanish == === Etymology === From caja (“box”) + -ón (augmentative suffix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kaˈxon/ [kaˈxõn] Rhymes: -on IPA(key): (Venezuela) [kaˈχõŋ] Rhymes: IPA(key): (Early Modern Spanish) /kaˈʃon/ [kaˈʃõn] Rhymes: -on Syllabification: ca‧jón === Noun === cajón m (plural cajones) a large box drawer Synonym: gaveta (music) cajón (box-shaped percussion instrument) (Latin America) coffin Synonym: ataúd (Argentina, Chile) a valley surrounded by mountains of considerable height, through which a river runs ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Cebuano: kahon → English: cajón → Portuguese: cajón → Tagalog: kahon, kason === Further reading === “cajón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 “cajón”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010 “cajón”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019