illa

Inherited from Old Catalan illa, from Vulgar Latin *isula (compare Occitan illa~iscla, French île, Spanish isla), from Latin īnsula (compare Portuguese ínsua).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈi.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈi.ʎa]

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• Rhymes: -iʎa

illa f (plural illes)

1. island

   El Japó té quatre illes principals.

   Japan has four main islands.

2. block (group of urban lots of property)

   Synonyms: illa de cases, illa urbana

• “illa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “illa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “illa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “illa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

illa

1. alternative form of ella

• “ella, illa, edda, idda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From the adjective illur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪtla/

illa (third person singular past indicative illaði, third person plural past indicative illaðu, supine illað)

1. to backbite, to slag so

illa (comparative verri, superlative verst)

1. badly, poorly

• væl

Attested: 18th century. From Portuguese ilha, perhaps from Old Catalan illa, from Latin insula. Partially displaced Old Galician-Portuguese inssoa (whence the inherited Galician insua, "river island").^[1]

• ilha (reintegrationist)

• IPA^(key): /ˈiɟa/ [ˈi.ɟɐ]
• Rhymes: -iɟa
• Hyphenation: i‧lla

illa f (plural illas)

1. island

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ilha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “illa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “illa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “illa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

illa

1. inflection of illar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Arabic إِلَّا (ʔillā).

• IPA^(key): /ʔíl.láː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔɪ́l.láː]

illā

1. except

From Arabic عِلَّة (ʕilla).

• IPA^(key): /ʔíl.làː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔɪ́l.làː]

illā̀ f (plural illōlī, possessed form illàr̃)

1. fault, blemish

illa (comparative verr, superlative verst)

1. badly, poorly

   Mér gekk illa.

   I did poorly.

   Að ganga illa.

   To do poorly.

   Henni gengur illa að finna góðan kærasta.

   She has bad luck (does poorly) with finding a good boyfriend.

• ganga illa

illa

1. she

illa

1. inflection of ille:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

• ille for more forms

illā

1. ablative feminine singular of ille

• “illa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• illa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) I console myself with..: haec (illa) res me consolatur
    
  • (ambiguous) Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas Platonis commenticia
    
  • (ambiguous) Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas, quam Plato finxit
    

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Catalan illa), from Vulgar Latin *isula (compare French île, Spanish isla), from Latin īnsula (compare Portuguese ínsua).

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illa f (plural illas)

1. island

• ilha
• yslla

Borrowed from Old Catalan [Term?], from Late Latin *isula from Latin insula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ʎa/

illa f (plural illas)

1. alternative form of inssoa
   • 1344, Pedro Afonso, Count of Barcelos, Livro de Linhagens do Conde D. Pedro:

     na ilha de Calcus

     in the island of Colchis

• Galician: illa
• Portuguese: ilha (see there for further descendants)
• → Leonese: illa
• → Mirandese: ilha

From the adjective illr.

illa (comparative verr, superlative verst)

1. badly, ill

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “illa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Norse ílla, illa, adverb formation of Old Norse íllr, illr (see Old Swedish īlder).

īlla

1. badly, poorly

• Swedish: illa

illa

1. lightning, ray, reflected or artificial light
2. gem, jewel, hidden treasure
3. a sacred tree or rock struck by lightning
4. a unit of measurement

• illay

From Old Swedish īlla, from Old Norse ílla, illa, adverb formation of Old Norse íllr, illr (see Old Swedish īlder).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪlˌla]
• Hyphenation: il‧la

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• Rhymes: -²ɪla

illa (comparative sämre, värre, superlative sämst, värst)

1. badly

   vara illa skadad

   be badly injured

2. poorly, not well

   Jag blev mycket illa behandlad av mina kollegor

   I was treated very poorly by my colleagues

   Det kommer gå illa

   It won't go well

   Tala illa om någon

   Speak poorly / ill of someone

   Inte illa!

   Not bad!

3. (physically) unpleasantly

   Jag mår illa

   I feel sick

• dåligt

• fara illa
• göra sig illa
• ill-
• illa däran
• inte illa (“not bad”)
• ligga illa till
• må illa

• illa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• illa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• illa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• illa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• lila

From Portuguese ilha.

illa

1. island

• illaki, ille

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish الا (illā),^[1][2] from Arabic إِلَّا (ʔillā).^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈil.laː/
• Hyphenation: il‧la

illa

1. no matter what, in any case, under any circumstances

   Synonyms: her hâlde, ne olursa olsun

2. especially, specifically

• “illa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “illa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2149