gallon

See also: Gallon

English

Etymology

From Middle English gallon, galoun, galun, from Old Northern French galun, galon (“liquid measure”) (compare Old French jalon), from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish *galla, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix, “cup”), Sanskrit कलश (kalaśa, “jar, pitcher; measure of liquid”). Related to Old French gille (“wine measure”) (from Medieval Latin gillō (“earthenware jar”)), Old French jale (“bowl”), Old French jaloie (“measure of capacity”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡælən/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ælən
• Hyphenation: gal‧lon

Noun

gallon (plural gallons)

1. A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
2. (UK, Canada) exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
3. (US) 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon")
4. (US) one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon").
5. (in the plural, informal) A large quantity (of any liquid).

   The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.

Derived terms

• 10-gallon hat
• ale gallon
• corn gallon
• gallonage
• galloner
• gasoline-equivalent gallon
• gasoline gallon equivalent
• kilogallon
• megagallon
• multigallon
• Roman gallon
• ten-gallon hat
• Winchester gallon
• wine gallon

Descendants

• → Cebuano: galon
• → Czech: galon
• → Irish: galún
• → Māori: kārani
• → Portuguese: galão
• → Serbo-Croatian: galon
• → Spanish: galón
• → Swahili: galoni
• → Turkish: galon

Translations

a unit of volume used for liquids

• Arabic: غَالُون m (ḡālūn)

  Hijazi Arabic: قالون m (gālōn), جالون m (jālōn)

• Bulgarian: галон (bg) m (galon)
• Catalan: galó (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ (sutlilodv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加侖 / 加仑 (zh) (jiālún)

• Czech: galon (cs) m
• Dutch: gallon (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: galono
• Finnish: gallona (fi)
• French: gallon (fr)
• Galician: galón m
• Georgian: გალონი (galoni)
• German: Gallone (de) f
• Greek: γαλόνι (el) n (galóni)
• Hungarian: gallon (hu)
• Icelandic: gallon n
• Irish: galún m
• Japanese: ガロン (ja) (garon)
• Korean: 갤런 (gaelleon)
• Latin: congius m
• Macedonian: га́лон m (gálon)
• Māori: kārani
• Norman: gallon m (Jersey)
• Polish: galon (pl) m
• Portuguese: galão (pt) m
• Russian: галло́н (ru) m (gallón)
• Scottish Gaelic: galan m
• Spanish: galón (es) m
• Swahili: galoni (sw)
• Tagalog: galon
• Thai: แกลลอน (th)
• Turkish: galon (tr)
• Vietnamese: galông, ga-lông
• Yiddish: גאַלאָן m (galon)

a gallon in the U.S. customary system

• Bulgarian: галон (bg) m (galon)
• Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ (sutlilodv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加侖 / 加仑 (zh) (jiālún)

• Czech: galon (cs) m
• Finnish: gallona (fi)
• Georgian: გალონი (galoni)
• German: Gallone (de) f
• Greek: γαλόνι (el) n (galóni)
• Hungarian: gallon (hu)
• Icelandic: gallon n
• Japanese: ガロン (ja)
• Macedonian: га́лон m (gálon)
• Portuguese: galão (pt)
• Russian: галло́н (ru) m (gallón)
• Thai: แกลลอน (th)
• Vietnamese: galông, ga-lông

a large quantity

• Thai: แกลลอน (th), ถัง (th) (tǎng)

Further reading

• gallon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Loglan

Dutch

Etymology

From English gallon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ.lən/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: gal‧lon

Noun

gallon m or n (uncountable, diminutive gallons n)

1. gallon

French

Etymology

From English gallon

Noun

gallon m (plural gallons)

1. gallon

Further reading

• “gallon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɒlːon]
• Hyphenation: gal‧lon

Etymology 1

Internationalism, unadapted borrowing from English gallon.

Noun

gallon (plural gallonok)

1. gallon (a unit of volume)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	gallon	gallonok
accusative	gallont	gallonokat
dative	gallonnak	gallonoknak
instrumental	gallonnal	gallonokkal
causal-final	gallonért	gallonokért
translative	gallonná	gallonokká
terminative	gallonig	gallonokig
essive-formal	gallonként	gallonokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	gallonban	gallonokban
superessive	gallonon	gallonokon
adessive	gallonnál	gallonoknál
illative	gallonba	gallonokba
sublative	gallonra	gallonokra
allative	gallonhoz	gallonokhoz
elative	gallonból	gallonokból
delative	gallonról	gallonokról
ablative	gallontól	gallonoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	galloné	gallonoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	gallonéi	gallonokéi

Possessive forms of gallon

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	gallonom	gallonjaim
2nd person sing.	gallonod	gallonjaid
3rd person sing.	gallonja	gallonjai
1st person plural	gallonunk	gallonjaink
2nd person plural	gallonotok	gallonjaitok
3rd person plural	gallonjuk	gallonjaik

Etymology 2

gall (“Gallic; Gaul”) +‎ -on (“on”, superessive suffix)

Adjective

gallon

1. superessive singular of gall

Noun

gallon

1. superessive singular of gall

Norman

Etymology

From Old Northern French galon, from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish *galla, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”).

Noun

gallon m (plural gallons)

1. (Jersey) gallon

Tatar

Noun

gallon

1. gallon (a unit of volume)
   • 2005 October 18, färidä xämit, “AQŞ: Aq Yortta tikşerü alıp barıla”, in Azatlıq radiosı‎^[1]:

     gallon benzin 3 dollarğa citsä

     if a gallon of gasoline reaches 3 dollars

Declension

Declension of gallon

nominative	gallon
genitive	gallonnıñ
dative	gallonga
accusative	gallonnı
locative	gallonda
ablative	gallonnan