babilla
French
Verb
babilla
- third-person singular past historic of babiller
Spanish
Etymology
Diminutive of baba by association with synovial fluid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈbiʝa/ [baˈβ̞i.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /baˈbiʎa/ [baˈβ̞i.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /baˈbiʃa/ [baˈβ̞i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /baˈbiʒa/ [baˈβ̞i.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: ba‧bi‧lla
Noun
babilla f (plural babillas)
- the stifle, or hind knee, of a quadruped
- (Colombia) spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus)
Further reading
- “babilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024