gallon

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• /ˈɡælən/
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* As an English and French surname, from the personal name Galun, pet form of Galo, a French form of the old Germanic name Walo; see Wale. * Also as an English surname, variant of Gallion.

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”).

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: غَالُون (ḡālūn) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Arabic: قالون (gālōn) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Arabic: جالون (jālōn) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Bulgarian: галон (galon) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Catalan: galó — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ (sutlilodv) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Chinese Mandarin: 加侖 /加仑 (jiālún) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Czech: galon — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Dutch: gallon — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Esperanto: galono — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Finnish: gallona — a unit of volume used for liquids
• French: gallon — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Galician: galón — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Georgian: გალონი (galoni) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• German: Gallone — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Greek: γαλόνι (galóni) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Hungarian: gallon — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Icelandic: gallon — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Irish: galún — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Japanese: ガロン (garon) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Korean: 갤런 (gaelleon) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Latin: congius — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Macedonian: га́лон (gálon) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Māori: kārani — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Norman: gallon — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Polish: galon — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Portuguese: galão — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Russian: галло́н (gallón) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Samoan: kālone — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Scottish Gaelic: galan — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Spanish: galón — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Swahili: galoni — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Tagalog: galon — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Thai: แกลลอน — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Turkish: galon — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Vietnamese: galông — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Vietnamese: ga-lông — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Yiddish: גאַלאָן (galon) — a unit of volume used for liquids
• Bulgarian: галон (galon) — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ (sutlilodv) — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Chinese Mandarin: 加侖 /加仑 (jiālún) — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Czech: galon — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Finnish: gallona — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Georgian: გალონი (galoni) — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• German: Gallone — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Greek: γαλόνι (galóni) — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Hungarian: gallon — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Icelandic: gallon — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Japanese: ガロン — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Macedonian: га́лон (gálon) — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Portuguese: galão — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Russian: галло́н (gallón) — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Thai: แกลลอน — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Vietnamese: galông — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Vietnamese: ga-lông — a gallon in the U.S. customary system
• Thai: แกลลอน — a large quantity
• Thai: ถัง (tǎng) — a large quantity