vainilla
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish vainilla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [bəjˈni.ʎə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [vəjˈni.ʎə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [vajˈni.ʎa]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
vainilla f (plural vainilles)
Further reading
- “vainilla”, 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
- “vainilla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “vainilla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vainilla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
Etymology
From vaina (“pod”) + -illa (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baiˈniʝa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /baiˈniʎa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /baiˈniʃa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /baiˈniʒa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Audio (Colombia): (file)
- 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: vai‧ni‧lla
Noun
vainilla f (plural vainillas)
- vanilla (plant or fruit)
- vanilla sex (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
- (Argentina) ladyfinger
- Synonyms: bizcocho de soletilla, bizcocho
Derived terms
- extracto de vainilla (“vanilla extract”)
- vainillal
- vainillina
Descendants
Further reading
- “vainilla”, 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
- vainilla on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es