figurilla
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fiɡuˈɾiʝa/ [fi.ɣ̞uˈɾi.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /fiɡuˈɾiʎa/ [fi.ɣ̞uˈɾi.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /fiɡuˈɾiʃa/ [fi.ɣ̞uˈɾi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /fiɡuˈɾiʒa/ [fi.ɣ̞uˈɾi.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: fi‧gu‧ri‧lla
Noun
figurilla f (plural figurillas)
- diminutive of figura
- 2015 September 18, “Batalla por el futuro de los videojuegos”, in El País[1]:
- Aquí y allá, unas figurillas manga conviven con los monstruos tentaculares que imaginó el maestro del horror literario H. P. Lovecraft.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “figurilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025