piel

See also: Piel

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch piemel.

Pronunciation

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Noun

piel (plural piele, diminutive pieletjie)

1. (informal) penis, dick, cock

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pellem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjel/
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: piel

Noun

piel f (plural piele)

1. skin

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “piel”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin pellis, pellem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjel/, [ˈpjel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Hyphenation: piel

Noun

piel f (plural pieles)

1. (anatomy) skin (of a human)

   Synonym: pelleyu

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German *pīl, northern variant of pfīl (“arrow”), from Latin pīlum. As a noun, the word has been lost in the dialects and has been reintroduced as Feil from cognate German Pfeil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːl/

Adverb

piel

1. (Ripuarian) straight up; steeply

   Hä schmieß der Ball piel en de Loff.

   He throws the ball straight up in the air.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pil/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Noun

piel m (plural pielen, diminutive pieltje n)

1. (regional) duckling

Etymology 2

Variant of pijl.

Noun

piel m (plural pielen, diminutive pieltje n or pieletje n)

1. (Netherlands, informal) penis

Derived terms

• pielemuis

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pellis, pellem.

Noun

piel f (plural piels)

1. skin

Leonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pellem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjel/, [ˈpjel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Hyphenation: piel

Noun

piel f (plural pieles)

1. skin

References

• piel at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.
• piel at the Pallabeiru Llïonés.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: piel

Verb

piel

1. second-person singular imperative of pleć
2. second-person singular imperative of pielić

Further reading

• piel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish piel (with an etymological plural pielles alongside analogical pieles), from Latin pellem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjel/ [ˈpjel]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: piel

Noun

piel f (plural pieles)

1. skin
2. fur

   Synonyms: pelo, pelaje

Derived terms

• a flor de piel
• lobo con piel de cordero
• no vendas la piel del oso antes de cazarlo
• piel de foca
• piel de gallina
• piel de sapo
• piel fina
• piel roja
• pielero

 

Related terms

• dérmico

 

Further reading

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