mejilla
Spanish
Alternative forms
- mexilla (archaic)
Etymology
From earlier mexilla, maxiella, from Vulgar Latin *maxella, from Latin maxilla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meˈxiʝa/ [meˈxi.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /meˈxiʎa/ [meˈxi.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /meˈxiʃa/ [meˈxi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /meˈxiʒa/ [meˈxi.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
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- 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: me‧ji‧lla
Noun
mejilla f (plural mejillas)
- (anatomy) cheek
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter V, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 69:
- Amalia aparece por el portal, sonríe y me da un beso dudoso entre la mejilla y el labio.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “mejilla”, 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