kanón

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kanon"

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kanón

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Borrowed from German Kanone, from Italian cannone, from canna (“tube”), from Latin canna (“reed, cane”).^[1]

kanón m inan

(colloquial) cannon [since 19th c.]
- 1937, Karel Čapek, “Akt druhý - Obraz druhý”, in Bílá nemoc‎^[1]:
  Poslyšte, kdybyste vy řekl baronu Krügovi,… aby přestal vyrábět kanóny a munici…
  Listen, if you told baron Krüg,... to stop producing cannons and ammunition...
(military) a kind of cannon with a long strong barrel
- 1995, Miloš Soukup, Moderní vojenská technika‎^[2], Vojenská akademie Brno, →ISBN, page 63:
  Výzbroj tanku tvoří 100mm kanón typ 59, […]
  The tank is armed with a 100mm cannon type 59, […]
(colloquial, complimentary) a very competent person
- 2014, Pavel Bakič, Noční pád‎^[3], Kniha Zlín, translation of Night Fall by Nelson DeMille, →ISBN, page 272:
  Chápu, proč tady tomu šéfujete. Jste kanón.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension of kanón (hard masculine inanimate)

^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “kanon”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 288