piła
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piła
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pila"
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *pila, a borrowing from Old High German fila. See modern German Feile.
Cognate with Upper Sorbian piła, Polish piła, Czech pila, Serbo-Croatian píla, and Russian пила́ (pilá).
Noun
piła f inan (diminutive piłka)
- saw (tool)
Declension
Declension of piła
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
piła
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “piła”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “piła”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pila. Compare German Feile.
Noun
piła f (diminutive piłka)
- saw, file (tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal)
- sawfish (any ray of the family Pristidae)
- Synonym: ryba piła
Declension
Declension of piła
Derived terms
nouns
verbs
- piłować impf
Etymology 2
Back-formation from piłka.
Noun
piła f
- (colloquial) Augmentative of piłka
Declension
Declension of piła
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
piła