pela

From Chinese 白蠟.

pela (uncountable)

1. Chinese wax
   • 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Pantologia:

     Thus we have the myrtle wax of America extracted from the berries of the myrica cerifera, and the pela of the Chinese.

• Alep, LEAP, Lape, Leap, Peal, e-pal, leap, pale, pale-, peal, plea

From a contraction of the preposition per (“by means of, by way of”) + feminine singular article la (“the”).

pela f (masculine pel, neuter pelo, masculine plural pelos, feminine plural peles)

1. by means of the

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɛ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɛ.la]

Deverbal from pelar.

pela f (plural peles)

1. debarking
2. peel, rind (of a fruit or vegetable)
3. (colloquial) peseta

pela

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

pela

1. third-person singular past historic of peler

• Alep, lape, lapé, pale, pâle

Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *pilla, from Latin pilula (“pellet”). In that case, cognate with Spanish pella.^[1]

• penla

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛla̝/

pela f (plural pelas)

1. lump, dollop, mass (of butter, grease, lard)

Deverbal from pelar (“to skin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛla̝/

pela f (plural pelas)

1. peel
2. peeling (of skin)

From Latin palella (“little shovel”), from pala (“shovel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛla̝/

pela f (plural pelas)

1. trowel; small shovel
   • 1373, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:

     Item enna cosina hua caldeyra de cobre con seus ferros et hua peella

     Item, in the kitchen a cooper cauldron with its irons [for hanging] and a spatula

2. vanes or blades of a water wheel

From Latin per + illa.

pela f sg (plural pelas, masculine pelo, masculine plural pelos)

2. contraction of por (“by; through”) and a (“the”) (archaic)

pela

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “peella”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pela”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.la/
• Rhymes: -ela
• Hyphenation: pé‧la

pela

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

• Pale, alpe, pale

pela

1. hyrax

From Old Galician-Portuguese pela, from Vulgar Latin *per (“by; through”) + *la (“the”).

• pêla (superseded)
• pella (archaic)

• Hyphenation: pe‧la

pela f sg

pela

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

pela class 9/10 (plural dipela)

1. hyrax

• IPA^(key): /ˈpela/ [ˈpe.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: pe‧la

Deverbal from pelar.

pela f (plural pelas)

1. hit, beating

   Coordinate terms: golpe, paliza

2. (Spain, colloquial, historical) one peseta (former currency of Spain)

   Coordinate term: duro

   • 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter V, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 75:

     Y te corto porque no tengo más pelas y estoy en una cabina. Cuelgo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

pela

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

• “pela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

-péla

1. to spell

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

1=9
2=10

pela (plural dipela)

1. hyrax

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-péla

1. to spell