tilla

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtiʎa̝/

Etymology 1

From Latin tigilla (small piece of wood).[1]

Noun

tilla f (plural tillas)

  1. linchpin (wedge used to reinforce the union of the wheel and the axle's extreme) of a traditional Galician cart

Etymology 2

From Old French, from Old Norse þilja (board, plank). Cognate of French tillac (upper deck) and English thill.[2]

Noun

tilla f (plural tillas)

  1. (nautical) storeroom; berth
  2. (nautical) deck

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

tilla f (plural tillas)

  1. a heap of bush and leaf litter
  2. ashes produced by the combustion of bush and leaf litter

Etymology 4

Verb

tilla

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

References

  1. ^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. tilla 1.
  2. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tilla”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tilla

  1. simple past of tillegge

Uzbek

Other scripts
Yangi Imlo
Cyrillic тилла
Latin tilla
Perso-Arabic
(Afghanistan)
طلا

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian طلا (tilā).

Noun

tilla (plural tillalar)

  1. gold
    Synonym: oltin
  • tillakor (gilder)
  • tillakori (gilding)