chorón

See also: choron and -choron

Galician

From chorar (“to cry”) +‎ -ón. Cognate with Portuguese chorão, Spanish llorón.

chorón m (plural choróns, feminine chorona, feminine plural choronas)

crybaby, whiner; also figuratively, moaner
Synonyms: choromicas, mexericas, nifrón
weeping willow (Salix babylonica, a species of willow with very pendulous twigs)
Synonym: salgueiro chorón
- 1845, Alberto Camino, O desconsolo:
  D’esta fontiña áa beira froleada
  sentado áa sombra de un chorón estóu
  doído o peito, á alma esconsolada
  triste morrendo pouco a pouco vóu.
  By the flowery side of this spring,
  sitting in the shade of a weeping willow I am,
  aching heart, disconsolate soul,
  sad, little by little I die

chorón (feminine chorona, masculine plural choróns, feminine plural choronas)

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chorón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chorón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chorón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN