calamón
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic قلمون (qalamūn), from Ancient Greek ὑποκάλαμον (hupokálamon), from κάλαμον (kálamon).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]calamón m (plural calamones)
- the western swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio)
- Synonym: calamón común
- 2015 November 4, “Diez hábitats costeros únicos en España”, in El País[1]:
- Aparte de los itinerarios 1 y 2, ambos territorio del calamón y el aguilucho lagunero, hay que incluir en nuestro paseo (si puede ser a las 9 de la mañana), el observatorio sobre la profunda laguna de Ses Pardes, donde se atisban somormujos y anátidas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “calamón”, 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
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