fille

• (daughter): From Middle French fille, from Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.
• (slang, prostitute): By ellipsis of the euphemisms fille des rues (“girl of the streets”), fille de joie (“girl of joy”), fille publique (“public girl”), and others like them that signify "prostitute".

• IPA^(key): /fij/

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [fɪj]

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fille f (plural filles)

1. girl

   Coordinate term: garçon

   Toutes les filles n'aiment pas jouer avec des poupées. ― Not all girls like playing with dolls.

2. daughter

   Coordinate term: fils

   Je vous présente mes fils, Gérard-Marcel et Pierre-Vincent, et mes filles, Marie-Léonore et Jacqueline-Hélène.

   May I introduce you to my sons, Gérard-Marcel and Pierre-Vincent, and my daughters, Marie-Léonore and Jacqueline-Hélène.

3. (slang) prostitute, wench

   Synonym: fille des rues

   Il buvait et courait les filles avant qu'il ne contracte la cirrhose et la blennorragie. ― He drank and consorted with hookers before contracting cirrhosis and gonorrhea.

   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Elle s'engouffrait dans les ruelles sombres, et elle arrivait tout en sueur vers le bas de la rue Nationale, près de la fontaine qui est là. C'est le quartier du théâtre, des estaminets et des filles.

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• Haitian Creole: fi
• Louisiana Creole: fiy

• “fille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

fille

1. inflection of fillar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

fille

1. present subjunctive analytic of fill

From Old English fyll, fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄. For forms with /u/, see fulle.

• fell, felle, fil, fill, fyll, fylle

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛl(ə)/, /ˈfil(ə)/

fille (uncountable)

1. A sufficient amount; the state of satiation.
2. A desired amount; the state of satisfaction.
3. Profusion, surfeit; a state of plenty.

• English: fill
• Yola: vill

• “fille, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English fille, an apheretic form of ċerfille.

• ville

• IPA^(key): /ˈfil(ə)/

fille (plural filles)

1. Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)
2. Something of little value.

• “fille, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

fille

1. alternative form of fillen

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

fille f (plural filles)

1. daughter (female child)
2. girl

• French: fille
  • Haitian Creole: fi
  • Louisiana Creole: fiy

• fil'ye (Jersey)

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.

fille f (plural filles)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) daughter

   Coordinate term: fils

2. (Jersey, Guernsey) girl
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[2], page 540:

     A quànd les filles sufflent le guiablle s'éhuque.

     When girls whistle the devil laughs outright.

From Old Norse filla (“skinn”).

fille f or m (definite singular filla or fillen, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)

1. a rag

• filledukke

• “fille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fille_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse filla (“skin”), compare Dutch vel.

fille f (definite singular filla, indefinite plural filler, definite plural fillene)

1. a rag

• lærv (dialectal)

• i filler
• så fillene ryk

• “fille” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin fīlia(m).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ʎə/

fille oblique singular, f (oblique plural filles, nominative singular fille, nominative plural filles)

1. daughter (female child)
2. girl

• fil

• Middle French: fille
  • French: fille
    • Haitian Creole: fi
    • Louisiana Creole: fiy
• Norman: fille, fil'ye
• Walloon: feye

Compare German füllen, Dutch vullen, English fill.

fille

1. to fill
2. to farce

fille

1. to foal

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• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪlə/
• Hyphenation: fil‧le

fille

1. (transitive) to skin
2. (transitive) to deceive

• Marron C. Fort (2015), “fille”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN