grilla

See also: grillá

French

Verb

grilla

1. third-person singular past historic of griller

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• grillet

Verb

grilla

1. inflection of grille:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾiʝa/ [ˈɡɾi.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈɡɾiʝa/ [ˈɡɾi.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈɡɾiʎa/ [ˈɡɾi.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈɡɾiʃa/ [ˈɡɾi.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈɡɾiʒa/ [ˈɡɾi.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa
• Rhymes: -iʎa
• Rhymes: -iʃa
• Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: gri‧lla

Etymology 1

From grillo.

Noun

grilla f (plural grillas)

1. female cricket
2. (Colombia, derogatory) slut; whore

Verb

grilla

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French grille or English grill.

Noun

grilla f (plural grillas)

1. grill
2. (Argentina, Chile, Peru) grid
3. (Argentina, Colombia) programming; TV listing

Further reading

• “grillo”, 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

Swedish

Etymology 1

Likely a variant of skrilla. First attested in 1910.

Noun

grilla c

1. (slang, Normally in plural: grillor) An ice skate

   Synonyms: skridsko, (slang) skrilla, (variant) grill

Declension

Declension of grilla

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	grilla	grillas
	definite	grillan	grillans
plural	indefinite	grillor	grillors
	definite	grillorna	grillornas

Etymology 2

From grill +‎ -a. First attested in 1941.

Verb

grilla (present grillar, preterite grillade, supine grillat, imperative grilla)

1. (transitive) To cook food on a grill
2. (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate

Conjugation

Conjugation of grilla (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	grilla		grillas
Supine	grillat		grillats
Imperative	grilla		—
Imper. plural1	grillen		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	grillar	grillade	grillas	grillades
Ind. plural1	grilla	grillade	grillas	grillades
Subjunctive2	grille	grillade	grilles	grillades
	Participles
Present participle	grillande
Past participle	grillad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Further reading

• grilla in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• grilla in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker