vainilla

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central) [bəjˈni.ʎə]

IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəjˈni.ʎə]

IPA^(key): (Valencian) [vajˈni.ʎa]

Noun

vainilla f (plural vainilles)

vanilla (plant or fruit)
vanilla sex

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From vaina (“pod”) +‎ -illa (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /baiˈniʝa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʝa]
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /baiˈniʎa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʎa]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /baiˈniʃa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʃa]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /baiˈniʒa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʒa]

Audio (Colombia): (file)

(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: vai‧ni‧lla

Noun

vainilla f (plural vainillas)

vanilla (plant or fruit)
vanilla sex
(Argentina) ladyfinger
Synonyms: bizcocho de soletilla, bizcocho

Derived terms

extracto de vainilla (“vanilla extract”)
vainillal
vainillina

Descendants

→ Catalan: vainilla
→ English: vanilla
- → Cantonese: 雲呢拿／云呢拿 (wan^4-6 nei¹ laa^4-2), 云呢拿 (wan^4-6 nei¹ laa^4-2)
- → Icelandic: vanilla
- → Manx: vanilley
- → Thai: วานิลลา (wá-ní-laa)
→ French: vanille
- → Danish: vanilje
- → Dutch: vanille
- → English: vanille
- → German: Vanille
- → Norwegian Bokmål: vanilje
→ Friulian: vanilie
→ Italian: vaniglia
→ Old Galician-Portuguese: bainilha
- Portuguese: baunilha
→ Piedmontese: vanilia
→ Polish: wanilia

Further reading

“vainilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
vainilla on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

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