# pilu
## English
### Noun

pilu (plural not attested)
* (India, Pakistan) Alternative form of peeloo (“kind of tree”)

### Anagrams

* Puli, puli

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pilu. Cognate with Votic pilu (“slit”) and Veps pilu (“gap, crack”). Possibly related to Finnish pillu (“vulva, vagina”).

### Noun

pilu (genitive pilu, partitive pilu)
* slit, slot

#### Declension
### Further reading

* pilu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Greenlandic
### Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *pIlu- (“leaf, bilberry shrub”), from Proto-Eskimo *pǝɫu- (“leaf”).

### Pronunciation

* (Nuuk) IPA: /pilu/, [pɪ.lʊ]

### Noun

pilu
* leaf

#### Synonyms

* piloqut, pilutaq

## Indonesian
### Adjective

pilu
* grief
* sadness

## Latvian
### Verb

pilu
* first-person singular present indicative of pilēt

## Polish
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* (Greater Poland):
** (Kuyavia) IPA: /ˈpi.lu/
* (Masovia):
** (Near Masovian) IPA: /ˈpi.lu/

### Interjection

pilu
* (Kuyavia, Near Masovian, often repeated) used to call geese
    Synonyms: piluchny, pilusie
    Coordinate term: a hula

#### Derived terms

* piluchny
* pilusie
* piluchna
* pilusia

### Further reading

* Józef Bliziński (1860) “pilu”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 628
* Oskar Kolberg (1867) “pilu”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 275
* Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “pilu”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 372

## Sardinian
### Etymology

From Latin pilus.

### Noun

pilu
* hair

## Sicilian
### Etymology

From Latin pilus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.lu/ (standard)
* Hyphenation: pì‧lu

### Noun

pilu m (plural pila)
* A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
* (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
    I pila nterni si tròvanu nnô stilu dû ciuri dû gigghiu larunchiu gialluInternal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily.
* Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
* (zoology) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
* (vulgar, singular only) Hair of the genitals.
    O cû pilu o senza pilu, rapi i cosci ca tâ nfilu.Either with hair or without hair, open your thighs so I will fuck you.
* (vulgar, metonymically, singular only) A sexual partner, especially an occasional and unstable one; the reference is to the area of the genitals, covered with hair (regardless of their actual presence or not).
    (vulgar, by extension) A sexual intercourse
    Mi nni vaju a piluI am going to pick up somebody.
    A mìa mi piaci u piluI like to fuck.
* (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

#### Derived terms

* pilami
* pilazzu
* piliceḍḍu
* piloccu
* pilu curtu
* pilu jancu
* pilu longu
* pilu nìguru
* pilurussu
* pilusazzu
* pilusu
* piluzzu

#### Related terms

* capiḍḍi
* cchiù pilu pi tutti
* circari u pilu nnill'ovu
* dipilàrisi
* ficcari
* fòrfici
* jirisinni a pilu
* pèttini
* rasari
* rasolu
* scucuzzari
* spilari
* tagghiari
* tira cchiussai nu pilu di sticchiu ca nu carru di voi

#### Descendants

* → Italian: pilu, pilo, pelo

## Veps
### Etymology

Related to Estonian pilu.

### Noun

pilu
* gap, crack, opening

#### Inflection
### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “щель”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

## Votic
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognates include Estonian pilu.

### Pronunciation

* (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA: /ˈpilu/, [ˈpʲiɫu]
* Rhymes: -ilu
* Hyphenation: pi‧lu

### Noun

pilu
* gap, crack, opening
* embroidery

#### Inflection
### References

* Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “pilu”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn