peinilla
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peiˈniʝa/ [pei̯ˈni.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /peiˈniʎa/ [pei̯ˈni.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /peiˈniʃa/ [pei̯ˈni.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /peiˈniʒa/ [pei̯ˈni.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: pei‧ni‧lla
Noun
peinilla f (plural peinillas)
- (Latin America) comb
- 2016 June 6, “Triste despedida en acuartelamiento”, in El Universo[1]:
- En la calle no faltaban las ventas de esferos, libretas, afeitadoras, cepillos para lustrar zapatos, pastas dentales, peinillas, papel higiénico, cortaúñas que les caía muy bien a quienes no tenían.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Latin America) short machete
Further reading
- “peinilla”, 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