illa

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan illa, from Vulgar Latin *isula (compare Occitan illa~iscla, French île, Spanish isla), from Latin īnsula (compare Portuguese ínsua).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

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• Rhymes: -iʎa

Noun

illa f (plural illes)

1. island

   El Japó té quatre illes principals.

   Japan has four main islands.

2. block (group of urban lots of property)

   Synonyms: illa de cases, illa urbana

Derived terms

Further reading

• “illa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “illa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “illa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “illa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Pronoun

illa

1. Alternative form of ella

References

• “ella, illa, edda, idda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Faroese

Etymology

From the adjective illur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪtla/

Verb

illa (third person singular past indicative illaði, third person plural past indicative illaðu, supine illað)

1. to backbite, to slag so

Conjugation

Adverb

illa (comparative verri, superlative verst)

1. badly, poorly

Antonyms

• væl

Galician

Etymology 1

Attested: 18th century. From Portuguese ilha, perhaps from Old Catalan illa, from Latin insula. Partially displaced Old Galician-Portuguese inssoa (whence the inherited Galician insua, "river island").

Alternative forms

• ilha (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ʎa/

Noun

illa f (plural illas)

1. island

Derived terms

• Illa

References

• “ilha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “illa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “illa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “illa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

illa

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

Hausa

Etymology 1

From Arabic إِلَّا (ʔillā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔíl.láː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Preposition

illā

1. except

Etymology 2

From Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔíl.làː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Noun

illā̀ f (plural illōlī, possessed form illàr̃)

1. fault, blemish

Icelandic

Adverb

illa (comparative verr, superlative verst)

1. badly, poorly

   Mér gekk illa.

   I did poorly.

   Að ganga illa.

   To do poorly.

   Henni gengur illa að finna góðan kærasta.

   She has bad luck (does poorly) with finding a good boyfriend.

Derived terms

• ganga illa

Interlingua

Pronoun

illa

1. she

Latin

Pronoun

illa

1. inflection of ille:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

Descendants

See also

• ille for more forms

Pronoun

illā

1. ablative feminine singular of ille

References

• “illa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• illa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) I console myself with..: haec (illa) res me consolatur
    
  • (ambiguous) Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas Platonis commenticia
    
  • (ambiguous) Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas, quam Plato finxit
    

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan (compare Catalan illa), from Vulgar Latin *isula (compare French île, Spanish isla), from Latin īnsula (compare Portuguese ínsua).

Pronunciation

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Noun

illa f (plural illas)

1. island

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ilha
• yslla

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Catalan , from Late Latin *isula from Latin insula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ʎa/

Noun

illa f

1. Alternative form of inssoa
   • 1344, Pedro Afonso, Count of Barcelos, Livro de Linhagens do Conde D. Pedro:

     na ilha de Calcus

     in the island of Colchis

Descendants

• Galician: illa
• Portuguese: ilha (see there for further descendants)
• → Leonese: illa
• → Mirandese: ilha

Old Norse

Etymology

From the adjective illr.

Adverb

illa (comparative verr, superlative verst)

1. badly, ill

References

• “illa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ílla, illa, adverb formation of Old Norse íllr, illr (see Old Swedish īlder).

Adverb

īlla

1. badly, poorly

Descendants

• Swedish: illa

Quechua

Noun

illa

1. lightning, ray, reflected or artificial light
2. gem, jewel, hidden treasure
3. a sacred tree or rock struck by lightning
4. a unit of measurement

Declension

See also

• illay

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish īlla, from Old Norse ílla, illa, adverb formation of Old Norse íllr, illr (see Old Swedish īlder).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: il‧la

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• Rhymes: -²ɪla

Adverb

illa (comparative sämre, värre, superlative sämst, värst)

1. badly

   vara illa skadad

   be badly injured

2. poorly, not well

   Jag blev mycket illa behandlad av mina kollegor

   I was treated very poorly by my colleagues

   Det kommer gå illa

   It won't go well

   Tala illa om någon

   Speak poorly / ill of someone

   Inte illa!

   Not bad!

3. (physically) unpleasantly

   Jag mår illa

   I feel sick

Synonyms

• dåligt

See also

• fara illa
• göra sig illa
• ill-
• illa däran
• inte illa (“not bad”)
• ligga illa till
• må illa

References

• illa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• illa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• illa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• illa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• lila

Turkish

Alternative forms

• illaki, ille

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish الا (illā), from Arabic إِلَّا (ʔillā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈil.laː/
• Hyphenation: il‧la

Adverb

illa

1. no matter what, in any case, under any circumstances

   Synonyms: her hâlde, ne olursa olsun

2. especially, specifically

Related terms

References

Further reading

• “illa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “illa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2149