vainilla

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəjˈni.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəjˈni.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [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, 2024
• “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]

• 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]

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• Rhymes: -iʝa

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: vai‧ni‧lla

Noun

vainilla f (plural vainillas)

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

   Synonyms: bizcocho de soletilla, bizcocho

Derived terms

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

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: vainilla
• → English: vanilla
  • → Cantonese: 雲呢拿／云呢拿 (wan^4-6 nei¹ laa^4-2), 云呢拿 (wan^4-6 nei¹ laa^4-2)
  • → Icelandic: vanilla
  • → Manx: vanilley
  • → Thai: วานิลลา (wá-ní-laa)
• → French: vanille
  • → Danish: vanilje
  • → Dutch: vanille
  • → English: vanille
  • → German: Vanille
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: vanilje
• → Friulian: vanilie
• → Italian: vaniglia
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: bainilha
  • Portuguese: baunilha
• → Piedmontese: vanilia
• → Polish: wanilia

Further reading

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