a las millas
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a las ˈmiʝas/ [a laz ˈmi.ʝas] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /a las ˈmiʎas/ [a laz ˈmi.ʎas] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /a las ˈmiʃas/ [a laz ˈmi.ʃas] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /a las ˈmiʒas/ [a laz ˈmi.ʒas] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: a las mi‧llas
Adverb
- (Puerto Rico, informal) fast, speedily
- ¡Tienes que llegar a las millas! ― You have to get there fast!
Further reading
- “milla”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010