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muñón

Spanish, noun/muˈɲon/

muñón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “the stump of a limb which has been lost” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Parte que queda en el cuerpo, de una extremidad o miembro cortado”.

What does muñón mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinethe stump of a limb which has been lost

  2. 2

    masculinea part of the body which was incomplete at birth

  3. 3

    masculinedeltoids

  4. 4

    masculinea piece of large firearm hardware made up of cylinders that hold a gun carriage in place while it is rotated

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Parte que queda en el cuerpo, de una extremidad o miembro cortado. 2. Músculo deltoides y la región del hombro limitada por él. 3. Cada una de las dos piezas cilíndricas que a uno y otro lado tiene el cañón, y le sirven para sostenerse en la cureña, permiténdole girar en un plano vertical a fin de arreglar la puntería.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of muñón

  • muñones plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce muñón?

  • /muˈɲon/
  • [muˈɲõn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to muñón

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is muñón in Spanish?

muñón appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).