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Spanish
Etymology
From peine + -illa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /peiˈniʝa/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /peiˈniʎa/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /peiˈniʃa/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /peiˈniʒa/
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa
- Syllabification: pei‧ni‧lla
Noun
peinilla f (plural peinillas)
- (Latin America) comb
2016 June 6, “Triste despedida en acuartelamiento”, in El Universo:En la calle no faltaban las ventas de esferos, libretas, afeitadoras, cepillos para lustrar zapatos, pastas dentales, peinillas, papel higiénico, cortaúñas que les caía muy bien a quienes no tenían.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Latin America) short machete
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