# pilla
## Catalan
### Verb

pilla
* inflection of pillar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Chickasaw
### Adverb

pilla
* only
* just

## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: pillas, pillât

### Verb

pilla
* third-person singular past historic of piller

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpilːɒ]
* Hyphenation: pil‧la
* Rhymes: -lɒ

### Noun

pilla (plural pillák)
* eyelash
    Synonym: szempilla

#### Derived terms

* pillájú
* pillás
* szempilla

### Further reading

* pilla 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

## Icelandic
### Noun

pilla f (genitive singular pillu, nominative plural pillur)
* pill

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “pilla” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

## Ingrian
### Etymology

Cognates include Finnish pilla and dialectal Estonian pill.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈpilːɑ/, [ˈpiɫː]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈpilːɑ/, [ˈpiɫːɑ]
* Rhymes: -ilː, -ilːɑ
* Hyphenation: pil‧la

### Noun

pilla
* trick, mischief
* evildoing, wrongdoing

#### Derived terms

* pillari
* pillatöö
* pilluri

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 408

## Latvian
### Adjective

pilla
* (dialectal) genitive masculine singular of pills
* (dialectal) nominative feminine singular of pills

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* pillen

### Noun

pilla f sg
* definite feminine singular of pille

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

pilla f sg
* definite singular of pille

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpiʝa/ [ˈpi.ʝa]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈpiʝa/ [ˈpi.ʝa]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈpiʎa/ [ˈpi.ʎa]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈpiʃa/ [ˈpi.ʃa]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈpiʒa/ [ˈpi.ʒa]
* Rhymes: -iʝa
* Rhymes: -iʝa
* Rhymes: -iʎa
* Rhymes: -iʃa
* Rhymes: -iʒa
* Syllabification: pi‧lla

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

pilla f (plural pillas)
* female equivalent of pillo (“crook, thief”)

#### Noun

pilla f (plural pillas)
* (Ecuador) prostitute

#### Adjective

pilla
* feminine singular of pillo

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pilla
* inflection of pillar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “pillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Verb

pilla (present pillar, preterite pillade, supine pillat, imperative pilla)
* (colloquial) to lightly and repeatedly touch (something) with fingertips, like repeated pokes or small strokes or light pinching
* (colloquial) to manipulate something (small) with finger(tip)s, especially when the manipulation is (slightly) finicky or fiddly
    Han pillade bort kärnorna ur apelsinenHe removed the pips from the orange with his fingers
* (colloquial, figurative) to fiddle or tinker (with something, which may or may not be finicky or fiddly)
    Synonyms: knåpa, pyssla, påta, pula
    Jag pillar med ett nytt projektI'm tinkering with a new project

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### Synonyms

* pillra

#### Related terms

* pill (“finicky or fiddly activity”)
* pille-
* pillig (“finicky, fiddly”)

#### See also

* fippla (“fiddle”)

### References

* pilla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* pilla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* pilla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Vilamovian
### Noun

pilla n
* penis

## Yagara
### Noun

pilla
* creek or gully

### References

* The Courier-Mail, 28 August 1933, "MEANING OF INDOOROOPILLY.".