vainilla

Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish vainilla.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vəjˈni.ʎə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bəjˈni.ʎə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /vajˈni.ʎa/

Noun

vainilla f (plural vainilles)

1. vanilla (plant or fruit)
2. vanilla sex

Further reading

• “vainilla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vainilla” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

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Spanish

Etymology

vaina (“pod”) +‎ -illa (diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /baiˈniʝa/, [bai̯ˈni.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /baiˈniʝa/, [bai̯ˈni.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /baiˈniʎa/, [bai̯ˈni.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /baiˈniʃa/, [bai̯ˈni.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /baiˈniʒa/, [bai̯ˈni.ʒa]

Noun

vainilla f (plural vainillas)

1. vanilla (plant or fruit)
2. vanilla sex
3. (Argentina) ladyfinger

   Synonyms: bizcocho de soletilla, bizcocho

Derived terms

• vainillal
• vainillina
• extracto de vainilla (“vanilla extract”)

Descendants

• → Catalan: vainilla
• → English: vanilla
  • → Cantonese: 雲呢拿, 云呢拿
  • → Icelandic: vanilla
  • → Manx: vanilley
  • → Thai: วานิลลา (wá-ní-laa)
• → French: vanille
  • → Dutch: vanille
  • → German: Vanille
• → Friulian: vanilie
• → Italian: vaniglia
• → Piedmontese: vanilia
• → Polish: wanilia
• → Portuguese: baunilha

Further reading

• “vainilla” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• vainilla on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es