pilla

pilla

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

pilla

1. only
2. just

• Homophones: pillas, pillât

pilla

1. third-person singular past historic of piller

• IPA^(key): [ˈpilːɒ]
• Hyphenation: pil‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

pilla (plural pillák)

1. eyelash

   Synonym: szempilla

• pillájú
• pillás
• szempilla

• pilla in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

pilla f (genitive singular pillu, nominative plural pillur)

1. pill

• “pilla” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Cognates include Finnish pilla and dialectal Estonian pill.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpilːɑ/, [ˈpiɫː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpilːɑ/, [ˈpiɫːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ilː, -ilːɑ
• Hyphenation: pil‧la

pilla

1. trick, mischief
2. evildoing, wrongdoing

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 408

pilla

1. (dialectal) genitive masculine singular of pills
2. (dialectal) nominative feminine singular of pills

• pillen

pilla f sg

1. definite feminine singular of pille

pilla f sg

1. definite singular of pille

• Syllabification: pi‧lla

pilla f (plural pillas)

1. female equivalent of pillo (“crook, thief”)

pilla f (plural pillas)

1. (Ecuador) prostitute

pilla

1. feminine singular of pillo

• → Tagalog: pilya

pilla

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

• “pillo”, 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

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pilla (present pillar, preterite pillade, supine pillat, imperative pilla)

1. (colloquial) to lightly and repeatedly touch (something) with fingertips, like repeated pokes or small strokes or light pinching
2. (colloquial) to manipulate something (small) with finger(tip)s, especially when the manipulation is (slightly) finicky or fiddly

   Han pillade bort kärnorna ur apelsinen

   He removed the pips from the orange with his fingers

3. (colloquial, figurative) to fiddle or tinker (with something, which may or may not be finicky or fiddly)

   Synonyms: knåpa, pyssla, påta, pula

   Jag pillar med ett nytt projekt

   I'm tinkering with a new project

• pillra

• pill (“finicky or fiddly activity”)
• pille-
• pillig (“finicky, fiddly”)

• fippla (“fiddle”)

• pilla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pilla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pilla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

pilla n

1. penis

pilla

1. creek or gully

• The Courier-Mail, 28 August 1933, "MEANING OF INDOOROOPILLY.".