pastilla

• b'steeya, bisteeya

From Spanish pastilla. Doublet of pastegh, pastel, pastiglia, pastila, and pastille.

pastilla (countable and uncountable, plural pastillas)

1. A Moroccan meat pie, usually of pigeon.
   • 1988, Mark Ellingham, Shaun McVeigh, The Rough Guide to Morocco (The Rough Guides), London: Harrap-Columbus, →ISBN, page 148:

     The lower (right-hand) fork is the Talaa Seghira, or Rue du Petit Talaa, a street which begins with a handful of small foodstalls where you can buy chunks of pastilla – the great Fassi delicacy of pigeon-pie; […]

Borrowed from Spanish pastilla. By surface analysis, pasta +‎ -illa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəsˈti.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pasˈti.ʎa]
• Rhymes: -iʎa

pastilla f (plural pastilles)

1. bar (of soap, chocolate, etc.)
2. pill, tablet, lozenge
3. (electronics) chip

• pastilla de fre
• pastillatge

• “pastilla”, 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
• “pastilla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “pastilla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pastilla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), a diminutive form of pasta (“dough, paste”), equivalent to pasta +‎ -illa.

• Syllabification: pas‧ti‧lla

pastilla f (plural pastillas)

1. pill

   Synonyms: píldora, tableta, pirula

2. cake (block of a dense material)
3. bar (block of soap or chocolate)
4. cube (cube of stock)
5. pad (brake pad)

• pastilla para la tos

• “pastilla”, 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