# bila
## Basque
### Etymology

From bilatu (“to search, to look for”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: (Navarro-Lapurdian) /bila/ [bi.la]
* IPA: (Southern) /biʎa/ [bi.ʎa]
* Rhymes: -ila, -a
* Rhymes: -iʎa, -a
* Hyphenation: bi‧la

### Adverb

bila (not comparable)
* [with absolutive or genitive] looking for, in search of

#### Usage notes

Indefinite noun phrases can be in any of the two cases, definite ones (singular or plural) have to be in the genitive.

### Verb

bila
* Short form of bilatu (“to search”).

### Further reading

* “bila”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “bila”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Chickasaw
### Etymology

Compare Choctaw bila, Alabama bila.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bi.lá/

### Verb

bila
* (stative, intransitive) to melt, to be melted, to thaw, to dissolve

#### Inflection

| Verbs beginning with a consonant. | Singular | Plural | Inclusive Tri-Plural |
| 1st-person (I, we) | sabila sa-bila | pobila po-bila | hapobila hapo-bila |
| 2nd-person (you, you all) | chibila chi-bila | hachibila hachi-bila | hachibila hachi-bila |
| 3rd-person (he, she, it, they) | bila | (hoo)bila (hoo-)bila | (hoo)bila (hoo-)bila |

#### Derived terms

* abila
* *bilachi
* bilaꞌ shilaꞌ
* bilili
* bíꞌla
* fohiꞌ bilaꞌ
* imbila
* itti̱sh bilaꞌ
* nakiꞌ bilaꞌ
* okaabila
* taliꞌ bilaꞌ
* tiyak bilaꞌ
* tobaksiꞌ bilaꞌ

## Choctaw
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bilá/

### Noun

bila (alienable)
* fat, grease, oil

### Verb

bila (active intransitive)
* to thaw, to melt

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɪla]
* Rhymes: -ɪla
* Hyphenation: bi‧la
* Homophone: byla

### Participle

bila
* inflection of bít:
** feminine singular past active participle
** neuter plural past active participle

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bila m (plural bila's, diminutive bilaatje n)
* (office slang) Clipping of bilateraal.

## Garo
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *pir¹ (“to fly”).

#### Verb

bila
* (intransitive) to fly (of both animate and inanimate entities)
* (intransitive) to jump

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

bila
* (transitive) to dig out (e.g. tubers)
* to uncover

### References

* Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎, Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 134

## Icelandic
### Etymology 1

bil (“interval; damage”) +‎ -a (“verbal suffix”), of the same origin as Etymology 2.

#### Verb

bila (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bilaði, supine bilað)
* to break, to break down

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

bila
* indefinite genitive plural of bil

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay bila, from Old Malay vela, from Sanskrit वेला (velā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bi.la/
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

bila (used in the compounds apabila and bilamana)
* when

### Particle

bila
* (colloquial) if

### Further reading

* “bila” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Iraqw
### Noun

bila m (plural bilaawee f)
* cliff, ravine

### References

* Mous, Maarten, Qorro, Martha, Kießling, Roland (2002) Iraqw-English Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien), volume 18, Köln, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 13

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* bile (SMS slang)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वेला (velā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bila/
** (Johor-Riau) IPA: [bilə]
* Rhymes: -la, -a

### Pronoun

bila (Jawi spelling بيلا)
* (interrogative) when
    Bila kau pergi sekolah?When did you go to school?
* a certain time; when
    Sampai bila kau nak meniru-niru jawapan orang lain?Until when do you want to keep on copying other people's answers?

#### Derived terms

* apabila
* bila-bila

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: bila

### Conjunction

bila (Jawi spelling بيلا)
* (proscribed) Alternative form of apabila.
    Bila dia gelak, dia mesti tersenyum lebar.When he laughs, he always has a wide smile.

### Further reading

* “bila” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Mirandese
### Noun

bila f (plural bilas)
* village

## Miskito
### Noun

bila
* mouth

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

bila m
* (dialectal, Trøndelag dialect) indefinite plural of bil
* (dialectal, Trøndelag dialect) dative singular of bil
    Nøklan ligg i bilaThe keys are in the car

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀩𑀺𑀮 (Brahmi script)
* बिल (Devanagari script)
* বিল (Bengali script)
* බිල (Sinhalese script)
* ဗိလ or ၿိလ (Burmese script)
* พิล or พิละ (Thai script)
* ᨻᩥᩃ (Tai Tham script)
* ພິລ or ພິລະ (Lao script)
* ពិល (Khmer script)
* 𑄝𑄨𑄣 (Chakma script)

### Noun

bila n
* den
* hole
* portion

#### Declension
## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bille. First attested in 1837.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbi.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ila
* Syllabification: bi‧la

### Noun

bila f
* (billiards) billiard ball
    Synonym: kula bilardowa
    biała bila ― a white billiard ball
    czarna bila ― a black billiard ball
    kolorowa bila ― a colored billiard ball
    bila uderza o coś/w coś ― a billiard ball hits against something
    uderzyć (w) bilę ― to hit a billiard ball

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Christoph Cölestin Mrongovins (1837) Doktadny niemiecko-polski słownik: Ausführliches deutsch-polmisches wörterbuch‎, page 141

### Further reading

* bila in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* bila in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbila]

### Noun

bila f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of bilă

## Serbo-Croatian
### Participle

bila (Cyrillic spelling била)
* inflection of biti:
** feminine singular active past participle
** neuter plural active past participle

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́da.

### Verb

-bila
* to boil

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Arabic بِلَا (bilā, “without”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Preposition

bila
* without

### References

* ↑ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 21 Nr. 144

## Swazi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́da.

### Verb

-bila
* to boil

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bila, ultimately from *bʰeid.

#### Noun

bila c
* a broadaxe
    Synonyms: bilyxa, skrädyxa
* the blade of a guillotine

##### Declension
#### Verb

bila (present bilar, preterite bilade, supine bilat, imperative bila)
* (jargon) to use a broadaxe

##### Conjugation

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

### Etymology 2

bil (“car”) +‎ -a

#### Verb

bila (present bilar, preterite bilade, supine bilat, imperative bila)
* (colloquial) to commute by car
    Många bilar till jobbet varje dagMany people drive to work every day
* (colloquial) to drive long distances
    Vi bilade ner till Spanien förra sommarenWe drove down to Spain last summer

##### Conjugation

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

### References

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

## Tagalog
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bilaq (“part split off”). Compare Maranao bila' (“brittleness; crispness”), Malay bilah (“thin strip or lath”) and Javanese ꦮꦶꦭꦃ (wilah, “long thin stick”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /biˈlaʔ/ [bɪˈlaʔ], /ˈbilaʔ/ [ˈbiː.lɐʔ] (noun)
*** Rhymes: -aʔ, -ilaʔ
** IPA: /biˈlaʔ/ [bɪˈlaʔ] (adjective)
*** Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: bi‧la

### Noun

bilâ or bilà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ)
* bamboo splits fastened horizontally along the length of a bamboo fence to reinforce it
    Synonyms: sapi, salo, patigas

#### Derived terms

* bilaan
* ibila
* magbila

### Adjective

bilâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ)
* nicked at the corner or edge
    Synonyms: pingas, bingas, bingaw

#### Alternative forms

* pila

#### Derived terms

* bilain
* mabila
* makabila

#### See also

* kabila

### Further reading

* “bila”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

### Anagrams

* labi, bali

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈbɪla/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈbiːla/, /ˈbɪla/

### Noun

bila
* Soft mutation of pila.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Xhosa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́da.

### Verb

-bila
* (intransitive) to boil

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* -bilisa

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́da.

### Verb

-bila
* (intransitive) to boil, to be boiling
* (intransitive) to ferment
* (intransitive) to be enraged

#### Derived terms

* -bilisa