pillaje

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /piˈʝaxe/ [piˈʝa.xe] (most of Spain and Latin America)
IPA^(key): /piˈʎaxe/ [piˈʎa.xe] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /piˈʃaxe/ [piˈʃa.xe] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /piˈʒaxe/ [piˈʒa.xe] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Rhymes: -axe
Syllabification: pi‧lla‧je

Noun

pillaje m (plural pillajes)

pillage
- 2009 June 16, “CPI juzgará a ex vicepresidente congolés”, in BBC Mundo‎^[1]:
  Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo tiene responsabilidad criminal por los asesinatos, violaciones y pillajes cometidos por sus milicias...
  Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo is criminally responsible for the murders, rapes and pillages committed by his militias...

Further reading

“pillaje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024