trilla

trilla

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

• Homophones: trillas, trillât

trilla

1. third-person singular past historic of triller

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiʎa̝/

Deverbal from trilla (“to thresh”); alternatively ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þriljaną (compare English drill, Old English þyrel).

trilla f (plural trillas)

1. clothes moth
2. woodworm

Deverbal from trilla (“to thresh”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiʎa̝/

trilla f (plural trillas)

1. (flax processing) scutcher
2. hatchet used for chopping gorse

trilla

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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trilla”, 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), “trilla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trilla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

trilla

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

• trillen

trilla m or f

1. definite feminine singular of trille

• trillet

trilla

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

• Syllabification: tri‧lla

Borrowed from Galician trilla, from Latin trigla.

trilla f (plural trillas)

1. gurnard (fish)

   Synonym: rubio

Deverbal from trillar.

trilla f (plural trillas)

1. threshing

trilla

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

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “trila”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 632

• “trilla”, 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

trilla c

1. a cart, a small waggon

trilla (present trillar, preterite trillade, supine trillat, imperative trilla)

1. to fall a short distance (without major injury), for example by tripping over

   Han trillade omkull

   He tripped over

   Han trillade av hästen

   He fell off the horse

   Den ruttnade och trillade av

   It rotted and fell off

2. (figuratively, with in) to come (in a somewhat random manner)

   Gästerna började trilla in

   The guests were starting to arrive

   Pengarna började trilla in

   The money started rolling in

3. to roll (to shape pills or meatballs); to create a ball of some (sticky) material by rolling a piece of it between one's hands until it is roughly spherical.

   att trilla köttbullar

   to roll meatballs

• The passive form and past participle are only applicable in definition 2.

• pillertrillare
• polletten trillar ner

• trilla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trilla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trilla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)