illa

Inherited from Old Catalan illa, from Vulgar Latin *isula (compare Occitan illa~iscla, French île, Spanish isla), from Latin īnsula (compare Portuguese ínsua).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈi.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈi.ʎa]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -iʎa

illa f (plural illes)

1. island

   El Japó té quatre illes principals.

   Japan has four main islands.

2. block (group of urban lots of property)

   Synonyms: illa de cases, illa urbana

• “illa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “illa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “illa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “illa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

illa

1. alternative form of ella

• “ella, illa, edda, idda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From the adjective illur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪtla/

illa (third person singular past indicative illaði, third person plural past indicative illaðu, supine illað)

1. to backbite, to slag so

illa (comparative verri, superlative verst)

1. badly, poorly

• væl

• ilha (reintegrationist)

• IPA^(key): /ˈiɟa/ [ˈi.ɟɐ]
• Rhymes: -iɟa
• Hyphenation: i‧lla

First attested in the 18th century. From Portuguese ilha, perhaps from Old Catalan illa, from Latin insula. Partially displaced Old Galician-Portuguese inssoa (whence the inherited Galician insua, "river island").^[1]

illa f (plural illas)

1. island

illa

1. inflection of illar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ilha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “illa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “illa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “illa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “illa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

From Arabic إِلَّا (ʔillā).

• IPA^(key): /ʔíl.láː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔɪ́l.láː]

illā

1. except

From Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

• IPA^(key): /ʔíl.làː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔɪ́l.làː]

illā̀ f (plural illōlī, possessed form illàr̃)

1. fault, blemish

illa (comparative verr, superlative verst)

1. badly, poorly

   Mér gekk illa.

   I did poorly.

   Að ganga illa.

   To do poorly.

   Henni gengur illa að finna góðan kærasta.

   She has bad luck (does poorly) with finding a good boyfriend.

• ganga illa

illa

1. she

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈil.la]

illa

1. inflection of ille:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

illa

1. inflection of ille:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪl.laː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈil.la]

illā

1. ablative feminine singular of ille

illā

1. ablative feminine singular of ille

• “illa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “illa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) I console myself with..: haec (illa) res me consolatur
    
  • (ambiguous) Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas Platonis commenticia
    
  • (ambiguous) Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas, quam Plato finxit
    

• illo (Mistralian)

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Catalan illa), from Vulgar Latin *isula (compare French île, Spanish isla), from Latin īnsula (compare Portuguese ínsua).

• IPA^(key): /ˈillo/

• Audio (Languedoc):

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illa f (plural illas)

1. island

• ilha
• yslla

Borrowed from Old Catalan [Term?], from Late Latin *isula from Latin insula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ʎa/

illa f (plural illas)

1. alternative form of inssoa
   • 1344, Pedro Afonso, Count of Barcelos, Livro de Linhagens do Conde D. Pedro:

     na ilha de Calcus

     in the island of Colchis

• Galician: illa
• Portuguese: ilha (see there for further descendants)
• → Leonese: illa
• → Mirandese: ilha

illa (comparative verr, superlative verst)

1. nonstandard form of ílla

From Old Norse ílla, illa, adverb formation of Old Norse íllr, illr (see Old Swedish īlder).

īlla

1. badly, poorly

• Swedish: illa

illa

1. lightning, ray, reflected or artificial light
2. gem, jewel, hidden treasure
3. a sacred tree or rock struck by lightning
4. a unit of measurement

• illay

From Old Swedish īlla, from Old Norse ílla, illa, adverb formation of Old Norse íllr, illr (see Old Swedish īlder).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪlˌla]
• Hyphenation: il‧la

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -²ɪla

illa (comparative sämre, värre, superlative sämst, värst)

1. badly

   vara illa skadad

   be badly injured

2. poorly, not well

   Jag blev mycket illa behandlad av mina kollegor

   I was treated very poorly by my colleagues

   Det kommer gå illa

   It won't go well

   Tala illa om någon

   Speak poorly / ill of someone

   Inte illa!

   Not bad!

3. (physically) unpleasantly

   Jag mår illa

   I feel sick

• dåligt

• fara illa
• göra sig illa
• ill-
• illa däran
• inte illa (“not bad”)
• ligga illa till
• må illa

• illa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• illa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• illa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• illa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• lila

From Portuguese ilha.

illa

1. island

• illaki, ille

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish الا (illā),^[1][2] from Arabic إِلَّا (ʔillā).^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈil.laː/
• Hyphenation: il‧la

illa

1. no matter what, in any case, under any circumstances

   Synonyms: her hâlde, ne olursa olsun

2. especially, specifically

• “illa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “illa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2149