bajón

See also: bajon

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈxon/ [baˈxõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ba‧jón

Etymology 1

From bajo (“low, not high”) +‎ -ón (augmentative suffix).

Noun

bajón m (plural bajones)

1. bassoon
2. bassoonist

Descendants

• → Tagalog: bahón

Etymology 2

From baja (“act or event of going down”) +‎ -ón (augmentative suffix).

Noun

bajón m (plural bajones)

1. lull, low, dip, drop (decline)
2. blues, slump (lack of spirit)

   estar de bajón ― to be down in the dumps

3. Ellipsis of bajón de electricidad (“power outage”).
4. (slang, Honduras, El Salvador, Chile) appetite (Desire to eat food or consume drink)

Derived terms

• bajonazo
• bajonear
• de bajón

 

Further reading

• “bajón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

• “bajón” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010

Anagrams

• jabón