# pille
## Afrikaans
### Noun

pille
* plural of pil

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpʰelə]

### Etymology 1

From Middle Low German pilere, pilar, from Medieval Latin pilare, pilarium, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

#### Noun

pille c (singular definite pillen, plural indefinite piller)
* pillar

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

From Middle Low German pille, from Medieval Latin pilla, pillula, from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila (“ball”).

#### Noun

pille c (singular definite pillen, plural indefinite piller)
* pill

##### Inflection
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

pille (imperative pil, infinitive at pille, present tense piller, past tense pillede, perfect tense har pillet)
* peel

### References

* “pille” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “pille,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “pille,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Estonian
### Noun

pille
* partitive plural of pill

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pij/
* Homophones: pillent, pilles

### Verb

pille
* inflection of piller:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpilːɛ]
* Hyphenation: pil‧le
* Rhymes: -lɛ

### Noun

pille (plural pillék)
* (archaic, poetic) (especially a smaller type of) butterfly [First attested around 1525.]
    Synonyms: pillangó, lepke
* (rare) snowflake [First attested in 1822.]
    Synonyms: hópehely, hópihe
* (slang, swimming) butterfly stroke
    Synonym: pillangóúszás

#### Declension
### References

* 1 2 pille in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* (butterfly; snowflake): pille in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* ([dialectal] milk skin): pille in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* ([regional] bread crust): pille in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Middle Low German
### Etymology

From Latin pilula, pillula.

### Noun

pille f
* pill (ball of medicine)

#### Descendants

* → Danish: pille
* → Norwegian Bokmål: pille

### References

* "pille" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Middle Low German pille (“pill”), from Latin pilula (“small ball, pellet; pill”), diminutive of pila (“ball; globe, sphere”) (with the suffix -ula, from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom (instrumental suffix)), likely from pilus (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *pil- (“one string of hair”).

### Noun

pille f or m (definite singular pilla or pillen, indefinite plural piller, definite plural pillene)
* a pill (tablet)

#### Derived terms

* abortpille
* sovepille

### References

* “pille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin pilula.

### Noun

pille f (definite singular pilla, indefinite plural piller, definite plural pillene)
* a pill (tablet)

#### Derived terms

* sovepille

### References

* “pille” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Spanish
### Verb

pille
* inflection of pillar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* pill (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɪˌlɛ/

### Noun

pille c
* (slang) penis, willy (of a young boy)
    Synonyms: pillesnopp, pillenupp

#### Descendants

* → Finnish: pili

#### See also

* kuk

### Further reading

* Fula Ordboken

## Turkish
### Etymology

From the contraction of pil + ile.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpil.lɛ/, /ˈpil.le/
* Hyphenation: pil‧le

### Noun

pille (definite accusative piliyle, plural pillerle)
* with the battery, using the battery
    Pille çalışıyor galiba.I think it runs on batteries.