mila

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mila"

Basque

Basque numbers (edit)
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100
    Cardinal: mila
    Ordinal: milagarren
    Fractional: milaren

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /mila/ [mi.la]
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /miʎa/ [mi.ʎa]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ila, -a
  • Rhymes: -iʎa, -a
  • Hyphenation: mi‧la

Numeral

mila

  1. a thousand

Derived terms

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mila/

Noun

mila

  1. glasses
  2. hip

References

  • (2015) Ma Gamilaraay

Gurindji

Noun

mila

  1. eye

References

Italian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.la/[1]
  • Homophone: Mila
  • Rhymes: -ila
  • Hyphenation: mì‧la

Numeral

mila

  1. plural of mille (one thousand)

Usage notes

  • Used instead of mille when it is modified by another number, often univerbated unless the modifier is not spelled as a word.
    due milatwo thousand
    duemila (prefered spelling)two thousand
    2 mila (when modifier is spelled using digits, or similar)2 thousand
  • Used instead of mille when modified by another plural determiner, often to emphasize that it is a large number (not necessarily greater than or equal to 1000.)
    1622, Tommaso Campanella, Dispregio della morte:
    e quanti mila n'ha una stella sola.
    and how many of them does a single star have.
    (literally, “and how many thousands of them does a single star have.”)
  • Used instead of mille after NUMERO e più (NUMBER and more), with the meaning of "(roughly,) more than NUMBER thousand".
    1821, Francesco Vigilio Barbacovi, Memorie storiche particolari della Naunia, page 107:
    contiene oggidì la popolazione di quaranta e più mila anime.
    nowadays, it has a population of at least fourty thousand souls.
    (literally, “it contains, nowaydays, the population of fourty and more thousand souls.”)

References

  1. ^ mila in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025

Further reading

  • mila in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • mila in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Anagrams

Kaurna

Number

mila

  1. five

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

mila m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of mil

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mila f

  1. definite singular of mil

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmiː.lɑ/

Noun

mīla

  1. nominative/accusative/genitive plural of mīl

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mīliju.

Noun

mīla f

  1. mile

Descendants

  • Middle High German: mīle, mīl

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German mīle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.la/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ila
  • Syllabification: mi‧la
  • Homophone: Mila

Noun

mila f (related adjective milowy)

  1. mile (unit of measure)

Declension

Further reading

  • mila in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mila in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmila]

Noun

mila

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of milă

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

mila (Cyrillic spelling мила)

  1. inflection of mio:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
    3. indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
    4. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmila/ [ˈmi.la]
  • Rhymes: -ila
  • Syllabification: mi‧la

Noun

mila f (plural milas)

  1. (Argentina, informal) clipping of milanesa

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

mila class IX (plural mila class X)

  1. tradition, custom, mores

References

  1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 280 Nr. 2646

Swedish

Etymology

Old Swedish mila, same as Norwegian mila, Danish mile, Middle Low German mile, German Meiler, of unknown origin.

Noun

mila c

  1. a charcoal stack, an earth kiln
    • 1915, Dan Andersson, “Jag väntar...”, in Kolvaktarens visor:
      Jag väntar vid min mila medan timmarna lida
      I'm tending my charcoal stack while the hours go by

Declension

Declension of mila
nominative genitive
singular indefinite mila milas
definite milan milans
plural indefinite milor milors
definite milorna milornas

Synonyms

References

Anagrams

Xhosa

Verb

-mila?

  1. heal

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.