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Occitan
Pronunciation
Noun
quilha f (plural quilhas)
- skittle
- (nautical) keel
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iʎɐ
- Hyphenation: qui‧lha
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French quille (“keel”),[1][2] from Old Norse kilir, plural of kjǫlr (“keel”), from Proto-Germanic *keluz. Cognate with English keel.
Noun
quilha f (plural quilhas)
- (nautical) keel (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
quilha
- inflection of quilhar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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