billar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French billard.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central) [biˈʎar]

IPA^(key): (Balearic) [biˈʎa]

IPA^(key): (Valencian) [biˈʎaɾ]

Noun

billar m (plural billars)

billiards

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French billard.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /biˈʝaɾ/ [biˈʝaɾ]
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /biˈʎaɾ/ [biˈʎaɾ]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /biˈʃaɾ/ [biˈʃaɾ]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /biˈʒaɾ/ [biˈʒaɾ]

Audio (Venezuela): (file)
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: bi‧llar

Noun

billar m (plural billares)

billiards
pool (game)
an establishment accommodating billiard tables; a billiard room

Derived terms

mesa de billar

Further reading

“billar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Yagara

Noun

billar

spear

References

Eipper, Christopher, STATEMENT OF THE ORIGIN, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS, OF THE GERMAN MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES AT MORETON BAY, CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1841.

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