guindilla
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish guindilla.
Noun
guindilla (plural guindillas)
- A kind of chili pepper from the Basque region.
Anagrams
Spanish
Etymology
From guinda (“sour cherry”) + -illa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡinˈdiʝa/ [ɡĩn̪ˈd̪i.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ɡinˈdiʎa/ [ɡĩn̪ˈd̪i.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ɡinˈdiʃa/ [ɡĩn̪ˈd̪i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ɡinˈdiʒa/ [ɡĩn̪ˈd̪i.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: guin‧di‧lla
Noun
guindilla f (plural guindillas)
Further reading
- “guindilla”, 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