cajón

Spanish

cajón (plural cajóns or cajones)

1. (music) A box-shaped percussion instrument played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes various implements.

• cajonist

From Spanish cajón. Related to caixão (“coffin”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ˈʁõ/

cajón m (plural cajones)

1. (music) cajón (box-shaped percussion instrument)

From caja (“box”) +‎ -ón (“augmentative suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈxon/, [kaˈxõn]

cajón m (plural cajones)

1. drawer
2. cajón (instrument)

• cajonear
• cajonero

• “cajón” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.