Wiktionary

dila

See also: díla and dila'
Languages (29)
Alangan • Bikol Central • Capiznon • Cebuano • Dibabawon Manobo • Dupaningan Agta • Garo • Higaonon • Ilocano • Kagayanen • Kankanaey • Kituba • Kongo • Limos Kalinga • Lindu • Maguindanao • Mansaka • Masbatenyo • Northern Catanduanes Bicolano • Pangasinan • Ratagnon • Sambali • Spanish • Swahili • Tagalog • Tiruray • Volapük • West Albay Bikol • Yogad
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Alangan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Bikol Central

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Pronunciation 1

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdilaʔ/ [ˈd̪i.l̪aʔ]
  • Hyphenation: di‧la

Noun

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dilà (Basahan spelling ᜇᜒᜎ)

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Pronunciation 2

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  • IPA(key): /diˈlaʔ/ [d̪iˈl̪aʔ]
  • Hyphenation: di‧la

Noun

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dilâ (Basahan spelling ᜇᜒᜎ)

  1. a lick; a stroke with a tongue
    Synonym: dilot
Derived terms
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Capiznon

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Cebuano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522..

Sense 3, semantic loan from English tongue.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: di‧la
  • IPA(key): /ˈdilaʔ/ [ˈd̪i.l̪ɐʔ]

Noun

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dilà (Badlit spelling ᜇᜒᜎ)

  1. (anatomy) tongue
  2. tongue (of a shoe)
  3. (metonymically) language

Quotations

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Dibabawon Manobo

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dilà

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Dupaningan Agta

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Garo

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Verb

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dila

  1. to lead, to guide

Higaonon

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. tongue

Ilocano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq (compare Indonesian lidah, Kiput deleiʔ, Malay lidah, Tagalog dila).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /diˌla/ [diˌla]
  • Hyphenation: di‧la

Noun

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dilà (Kur-itan spelling ᜇᜒᜎ)

  1. tongue
  2. arrowhead
  3. needle or tab on a balance
  4. clapper; tongue of a bell
  5. native language

Kagayanen

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Kankanaey

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Kankanaey) IPA(key): /ˈdila/ [ˈdiː.lʌ]
    • IPA(key): (Sagada & parts of Sabangan) /ˈdira/ [ˈdiː.rʌ]
  • Rhymes: -ila, (Sagada & parts of Sabangan) -ira
  • Syllabification: di‧la

Noun

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díla

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Kituba

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

Verb

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dila

  1. to cry, to weep

Kongo

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

Verb

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-dila

  1. to cry, to weep

Limos Kalinga

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Lindu

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Maguindanao

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. tongue

Mansaka

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. tongue

Masbatenyo

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dilà

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Northern Catanduanes Bicolano

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dilà

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Pangasinan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dilá

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Ratagnon

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Sambali

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dilà

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Spanish

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Verb

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dila

  1. second-person singular imperative of decir combined with la

Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic دِلَاء (dilāʔ), plural of دَلْو (dalw).

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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dila class IX (plural dila class X)

  1. a dipper for pumping water into a boat

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq. Compare Ibanag zila, Ilocano dila, Kiput deleiʔ, Malay lidah, and Tsat la⁵⁵. Also possibly from a metathesis of Sanskrit लीढ (līḍha, “licked”).

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dilà (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜎ)

  1. (anatomy) tongue
    Synonym: lengguwa
  2. sticking out of one's tongue
    Synonyms: pagdila, dilaan
  3. lick; lap (with one's tongue)
    Synonyms: lamir, himod, himurin
  4. tongue of a shoe (flap under the laces)
  5. (music) reed (of a woodwind instrument)
  6. long, narrow flame
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Determiner

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dilâ (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜎ)

  1. Alternative form of dilan

Pronoun

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dilâ (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜎ)

  1. Alternative form of dilan

Further reading

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  • “dila”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

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Tiruray

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Volapük

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Noun

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dila

  1. genitive singular of dil

West Albay Bikol

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dila

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Yogad

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dilaq.

Noun

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dilá

  1. (anatomy) tongue
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