# illa
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan illa, from Vulgar Latin *isula (compare Occitan illa~iscla, French île, Spanish isla), from Latin īnsula (compare Portuguese ínsua).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈi.ʎə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈi.ʎa]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iʎa

### Noun

illa f (plural illes)
* island
    El Japó té quatre illes principals.Japan has four main islands.
* block (group of urban lots of property)
    Synonyms: illa de cases, illa urbana

#### Derived terms

* aïllar
* illot
* superilla

### Further reading

* “illa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “illa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “illa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “illa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Corsican
### Pronoun

illa
* Alternative form of ella

### References

* “ella, illa, edda, idda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## Faroese
### Etymology

From the adjective illur.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪtla/

### Verb

illa (third person singular past indicative illaði, third person plural past indicative illaðu, supine illað)
* to backbite, to slag so

#### Conjugation
### Adverb

illa (comparative verri, superlative verst)
* badly, poorly

#### Antonyms

* væl

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Attested: 18th century. From Portuguese ilha, perhaps from Old Catalan illa, from Latin insula. Partially displaced Old Galician-Portuguese inssoa (whence the inherited Galician insua, "river island").

#### Alternative forms

* ilha (reintegrationist)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈiɟa/ [ˈi.ɟɐ]
* Rhymes: -iɟa
* Hyphenation: i‧lla

#### Noun

illa f (plural illas)
* island

##### Derived terms

* Illa

#### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ilha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “illa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “illa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “illa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Cf. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “isla”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

illa
* inflection of illar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Hausa
### Etymology 1

From Arabic إِلَّا (ʔillā).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔíl.láː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ʔɪ́l.láː]

#### Preposition

illā
* except

### Etymology 2

From Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔíl.làː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ʔɪ́l.làː]

#### Noun

illā̀ f (plural illōlī, possessed form illàr̃)
* fault, blemish

## Icelandic
### Adverb

illa (comparative verr, superlative verst)
* badly, poorly
    Mér gekk illa.I did poorly.
    Að ganga illa.To do poorly.
    Henni gengur illa að finna góðan kærasta.She has bad luck (does poorly) with finding a good boyfriend.

#### Derived terms

* ganga illa

## Interlingua
### Pronoun

illa
* she

## Latin
### Pronoun

illa
* inflection of ille:
** nominative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative neuter plural

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: ea
* Asturian: ella, la
* Catalan: ella, la
* Corsican: ella, edda, illa, idda, la, a
* Dalmatian: jala, la
* Franco-Provençal: el, la
* Old French: ele, la
** French: elle, la
*** → Norwegian Bokmål: la
* Friulian: jê, la
* Istriot: gila
* Italian: ella, la
* Occitan: ela, la
* Mirandese: eilha, la
* Old Galician-Portuguese: ela, a, -la
** Fala: ela, a
** Galician: ela, a
** Portuguese: ela, a
* Romanian: ea, aia, a, -a -ua
* Romansch: ella, la
* Sicilian: iḍḍa, la/a
* Spanish: ella, la
* Venetan: eła, ła

#### See also

* ille for more forms

### Pronoun

illā
* ablative feminine singular of ille

### References

* “illa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* illa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) I console myself with..: haec (illa) res me consolatur (ambiguous) Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas Platonis commenticia (ambiguous) Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas, quam Plato finxit

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Catalan illa), from Vulgar Latin *isula (compare French île, Spanish isla), from Latin īnsula (compare Portuguese ínsua).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Noun

illa f (plural illas)
* island

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* ilha
* yslla

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Catalan [Term?], from Late Latin *isula from Latin insula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈi.ʎa/

### Noun

illa f (plural illas)
* Alternative form of inssoa
** 1344, Pedro Afonso, Count of Barcelos, Livro de Linhagens do Conde D. Pedro:na ilha de Calcusin the island of Colchis

#### Descendants

* Galician: illa
* Portuguese: ilha (see there for further descendants)
* → Leonese: illa
* → Mirandese: ilha

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From the adjective illr.

### Adverb

illa (comparative verr, superlative verst)
* badly, ill

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “illa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse ílla, illa, adverb formation of Old Norse íllr, illr (see Old Swedish īlder).

### Adverb

īlla
* badly, poorly

#### Descendants

* Swedish: illa

## Quechua
### Noun

illa
* lightning, ray, reflected or artificial light
* gem, jewel, hidden treasure
* a sacred tree or rock struck by lightning
* a unit of measurement

#### See also

* illay

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish īlla, from Old Norse ílla, illa, adverb formation of Old Norse íllr, illr (see Old Swedish īlder).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɪlˌla]
* Hyphenation: il‧la
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -²ɪla

### Adverb

illa (comparative sämre, värre, superlative sämst, värst)
* badly
    vara illa skadadbe badly injured
* poorly, not well
    Jag blev mycket illa behandlad av mina kollegorI was treated very poorly by my colleagues
    Det kommer gå illaIt won't go well
    Tala illa om någonSpeak poorly / ill of someone
    Inte illa!Not bad!
* (physically) unpleasantly
    Jag mår illaI feel sick

#### Synonyms

* dåligt

#### See also

* fara illa
* göra sig illa
* ill-
* illa däran
* inte illa (“not bad”)
* ligga illa till
* må illa

### References

* illa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* illa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* illa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* illa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Anagrams

* lila

## Tetum
### Etymology

From Portuguese ilha.

### Noun

illa
* island

## Turkish
### Alternative forms

* illaki, ille

### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish الا (illā), from Arabic إِلَّا (ʔillā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈil.laː/
* Hyphenation: il‧la

### Adverb

illa
* no matter what, in any case, under any circumstances
    Synonyms: her hâlde, ne olursa olsun
* especially, specifically

#### Related terms

* bilakayduşart
* illallah
* lahavle
* lakayıt
* laubali

### References

* ↑ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “الا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 179
* ↑ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “الا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 132
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “illa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* “illa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “illa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2149