jayán
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /xaˈʝan/ [xaˈʝãn]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /xaˈʃan/ [xaˈʃãn]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /xaˈʒan/ [xaˈʒãn]
- 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)
- huge person; beast; stocky person
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- A hora conveniente, dos jayanes pusieron sobre la mesa del comedor un mediano monte de pan
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Further reading
- “jayán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014