caballazo

Spanish

Etymology

From caballo +‎ -azo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kabaˈʝaθo/ [ka.β̞aˈʝa.θo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /kabaˈʝaθo/ [ka.β̞aˈʝa.θo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /kabaˈʎaθo/ [ka.β̞aˈʎa.θo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /kabaˈʝaso/ [ka.β̞aˈʝa.so]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /kabaˈʝaso/ [ka.β̞aˈʝa.so]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kabaˈʎaso/ [ka.β̞aˈʎa.so]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kabaˈʃaso/ [ka.β̞aˈʃa.so]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kabaˈʒaso/ [ka.β̞aˈʒa.so]

• Rhymes: -aθo
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: ca‧ba‧lla‧zo

Noun

caballazo m (plural caballazos)

1. an accident or collision involving a horse

Further reading

• “caballazo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10