billa

See also: Billa

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: billas, billât

Verb

billa

1. third-person singular past historic of biller

Galician

Billa

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese billa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), either from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia or from Old French bille (“stick”); ultimately from Proto-Celtic *belyom (“tree; trunk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbiʎɐ]

Noun

billa f (plural billas)

1. spigot

   Synonyms: espicho, espita

2. faucet
   • 1810, José Fernández y Neira, Proezas de Galicia, Pontevedra: Bibliófilos Gallegos, page 6:

     e correndo vanchese á bodega, abrironche as pipas, e sacaronche cheos de viño os caldeiros e olas, deixando abertas as billas, de maneira que todo o viño se foi pola bodega

     they ran into the wine cellar and opened the barrels; they took away cauldrons and pots filled with wine, leaving the faucets open so that all the wine slipped away by the cellar

3. stick

Derived terms

• billote

Related terms

• billarda

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “billa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “billa”, 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), “billa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “billa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

billa f

1. definite singular of bille

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀩𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮 (Brahmi script)
• बिल्ल (Devanagari script)
• বিল্ল (Bengali script)
• බිල‍්ල (Sinhalese script)
• ဗိလ္လ or ၿိလ္လ or ၿိလ်လ (Burmese script)
• พิลฺล or พิลละ (Thai script)
• ᨻᩥᩃᩖ (Tai Tham script)
• ພິລ຺ລ or ພິລລະ (Lao script)
• ពិល្ល (Khmer script)
• 𑄝𑄨𑄣𑄳𑄣 (Chakma script)

Noun

billa m

1. marmelos tree

Declension

Declension table of "billa" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	billo	billā
Accusative (second)	billaṃ	bille
Instrumental (third)	billena	billehi or billebhi
Dative (fourth)	billassa or billāya or billatthaṃ	billānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	billasmā or billamhā or billā	billehi or billebhi
Genitive (sixth)	billassa	billānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	billasmiṃ or billamhi or bille	billesu
Vocative (calling)	billa	billā

Yagara

Noun

billa

1. Alternative form of pilla.

References

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