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• UK: /ˈkəʊ.lən/
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• US: kō'lən
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• US: /ˈkoʊ.lən/
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• US: /ˈkɔ.lən/
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• US: [ˈkhɔ.ɫn̩]
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• UK: /kəˈlɒn/
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• US: /kəˈloʊn/
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Spanish surname, variant of Colón. Also Castilianized form of Colom.

From Latin cōlon (“a member of a verse of poem”), from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “a member, limb, clause, part of a verse”).

From Latin cŏlon (“large intestine”), from Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon, “the large intestine, also food, meat, fodder”).

From French colon.

143 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: dy pika — punctuation mark
• Amharic: ድርብ ሰረዝ (dərb säräz) — punctuation mark
• Arabic: نُقْطَة مُزْدَوِجَة (nuqṭa muzdawija) — punctuation mark
• Arabic: نُقْطَتَان (nuqṭatān) — punctuation mark
• Arabic: نُقْطَتين (nugṭatēn) — punctuation mark
• Asturian: dos puntos — punctuation mark
• Azerbaijani: iki nöqtə — punctuation mark
• Bashkir: ике нөктә (ike nöktə) — punctuation mark
• Belarusian: двукро́п'е (dvukrópʺje) — punctuation mark
• Bulgarian: двоето́чие (dvoetóčie) — punctuation mark
• Catalan: dos punts — punctuation mark
• Chinese Mandarin: 冒號 /冒号 (màohào) — punctuation mark
• Czech: dvojtečka — punctuation mark
• Danish: kolon — punctuation mark
• Dutch: dubbele punt — punctuation mark
• Dutch: dubbelpunt — punctuation mark
• Esperanto: dupunkto — punctuation mark
• Estonian: koolon — punctuation mark
• Faroese: kolon — punctuation mark
• Finnish: kaksoispiste — punctuation mark
• French: deux points — punctuation mark
• Galician: dous puntos — punctuation mark
• Georgian: ორწერტილი (orc̣erṭili) — punctuation mark
• German: Doppelpunkt — punctuation mark
• German: Kolon — punctuation mark
• Greek: άνω και κάτω τελεία (áno kai káto teleía) — punctuation mark
• Hebrew: נקודתיים (nekudataim) — punctuation mark
• Hindi: कोलन (kolan) — punctuation mark
• Hindi: अपूर्ण विराम (apūrṇ virām) — punctuation mark
• Hindi: कॉलन (kŏlan) — punctuation mark
• Hungarian: kettőspont — punctuation mark
• Icelandic: tvípunktur — punctuation mark
• Ido: bipunto — punctuation mark
• Indonesian: titik dua — punctuation mark
• Interlingua: duo punctos — punctuation mark
• Irish: idirstad — punctuation mark
• Italian: due punti — punctuation mark
• Japanese: コロン (koron) — punctuation mark
• Kazakh: қос нүкте (qos nükte) — punctuation mark
• Korean: 쌍점 (ssangjeom) — punctuation mark
• Korean: 콜론 (kollon) — punctuation mark
• Central Kurdish: جووتخاڵ (cûtxall) — punctuation mark
• Kyrgyz: кош чекит (koş cekit) — punctuation mark
• Latvian: kols — punctuation mark
• Lithuanian: dvitaškis — punctuation mark
• Macedonian: две точки (dve točki) — punctuation mark
• Malagasy: teboka roa — punctuation mark
• Māori: kopirua — punctuation mark
• Mongolian: давхар цэг (davxar ceg) — punctuation mark
• Moore: tẽg-yɩɩbre — punctuation mark
• Norwegian: kolon — punctuation mark
• Persian: دونقطه (donoqte) — punctuation mark
• Polish: dwukropek — punctuation mark
• Portuguese: dois-pontos — punctuation mark
• Punjabi: ਦੁਬਿੰਦੀ (dubindī) — punctuation mark
• Romanian: două puncte — punctuation mark
• Russian: двоето́чие (dvojetóčije) — punctuation mark
• Scottish Gaelic: còilean — punctuation mark
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-phuing — punctuation mark
• Serbo-Croatian: двоточка — punctuation mark
• Serbo-Croatian: двоточје — punctuation mark
• Serbo-Croatian: двотачка — punctuation mark
• Serbo-Croatian: dvotočka — punctuation mark
• Serbo-Croatian: dvotočje — punctuation mark
• Serbo-Croatian: dvotačka — punctuation mark
• Sicilian: du' punti — punctuation mark
• Slovak: dvojbodka — punctuation mark
• Slovene: dvopičje — punctuation mark
• Spanish: dos puntos — punctuation mark
• Swahili: nukta mbili — punctuation mark
• Swahili: koloni — punctuation mark
• Swedish: kolon — punctuation mark
• Tagalog: tutuldok — punctuation mark
• Tajik: ду нуқта — punctuation mark
• Tajik: аломати баён (alomat-i bayon) — punctuation mark
• Tamil: முக்காற்புள்ளி (mukkāṟpuḷḷi) — punctuation mark
• Thai: ทวิภาค (tá-wí-pâak) — punctuation mark
• Turkish: iki nokta üst üste — punctuation mark
• Turkish: iki nokta — punctuation mark
• Ukrainian: двокра́пка (dvokrápka) — punctuation mark
• Uyghur: قوش چېكىت (qosh chëkit) — punctuation mark
• Uzbek: ikki nuqta — punctuation mark
• Uzbek: qoʻsh nuqta — punctuation mark
• Vietnamese: dấu hai chấm — punctuation mark
• Welsh: colon — punctuation mark
• Arabic: قُولُون (qulūn) — the last part of the digestive system
• Arabic: قولون (qawlūn) — the last part of the digestive system
• Arabic: قولون (qōlōn) — the last part of the digestive system
• Asturian: colon — the last part of the digestive system
• Azerbaijani: yoğun bağırsaq — the last part of the digestive system
• Bashkir: туҡ эсәк (tuq esək) — the last part of the digestive system
• Bashkir: йыуан эсәк (yıwan esək) — the last part of the digestive system
• Bulgarian: ободно черво (obodno červo) — the last part of the digestive system
• Bulgarian: колон (kolon) — the last part of the digestive system
• Catalan: còlon — the last part of the digestive system
• Chinese Cantonese: 結腸 /结肠 (git3 coeng4) — the last part of the digestive system
• Chinese Mandarin: 結腸 /结肠 (jiécháng) — the last part of the digestive system
• Czech: tračník — the last part of the digestive system
• Danish: tyktarm — the last part of the digestive system
• Dutch: karteldarm — the last part of the digestive system
• Esperanto: kojlo — the last part of the digestive system
• Finnish: lynkkysuoli — the last part of the digestive system
• French: côlon — the last part of the digestive system
• Galician: colon — the last part of the digestive system
• German: Kolon — the last part of the digestive system
• German: Grimmdarm — the last part of the digestive system
• Greek: κόλον (kólon) — the last part of the digestive system
• Hindi: बृहदांत्र (bŕhdāntra) — the last part of the digestive system
• Hindi: कोलन (kolan) — the last part of the digestive system
• Hungarian: vastagbél — the last part of the digestive system
• Icelandic: ristill — the last part of the digestive system
• Irish: drólann — the last part of the digestive system
• Japanese: 大腸 (daichō) — the last part of the digestive system
• Korean: 큰창자 (keunchangja) — the last part of the digestive system
• Korean: 대장 (daejang) — the last part of the digestive system
• Korean: 굵은밸 (gulgeunbael) — the last part of the digestive system
• Lithuanian: gaubtinė žarna — the last part of the digestive system
• Macedonian: дебело црево (debelo crevo) — the last part of the digestive system
• Maltese: kolon — the last part of the digestive system
• Māori: kōpiro nui — the last part of the digestive system
• Marathi: मोठे आतडे (moṭhe ātḍe) — the last part of the digestive system
• Marathi: बृहदांत्र (bŕhdāntra) — the last part of the digestive system
• Navajo: achʼíídííl — the last part of the digestive system
• Norwegian: endetarm — the last part of the digestive system
• Occitan: colon — the last part of the digestive system
• Persian: کولون (kolon) — the last part of the digestive system
• Persian: پسروده (pas-rude) — the last part of the digestive system
• Polish: okrężnica — the last part of the digestive system
• Portuguese: cólon — the last part of the digestive system
• Russian: ободо́чная кишка́ (obodóčnaja kišká) — the last part of the digestive system
• Russian: то́лстая кишка́ (tólstaja kišká) — the last part of the digestive system
• Scottish Gaelic: caolan mòr — the last part of the digestive system
• Slovak: hrubé črevo — the last part of the digestive system
• Slovene: debelo črevo — the last part of the digestive system
• Slovene: danka — the last part of the digestive system
• Spanish: colon — the last part of the digestive system
• Swedish: tjocktarm — the last part of the digestive system
• Swedish: grovtarm — the last part of the digestive system
• Tamil: பெருங்குடல் (peruṅkuṭal) — the last part of the digestive system
• Turkish: kolon — the last part of the digestive system
• Vietnamese: kết tràng — the last part of the digestive system
• Volapük: krasum — the last part of the digestive system
• Welsh: colon — the last part of the digestive system