piła
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pila"
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpʲi.wa/
- Rhymes: -iwa
- Syllabification: pi‧ła
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *pila, a borrowing from Old High German fila. See modern German Feile.
Cognate with Upper Sorbian piła, Polish piła, Czech pila, Serbo-Croatian píla, and Russian пила́ (pilá).
Noun
piła f (diminutive piłka)
- saw (tool)
Declension
Declension of piła
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
piła
- feminine singular of pił
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “piła”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “piła”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpi.wa/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -iwa
- Syllabification: pi‧ła
- Homophone: Piła
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pila. Compare German Feile.
Noun
piła f (diminutive piłka)
- saw, file (tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal)
- sawfish (any ray of the family Pristidae)
- Synonym: ryba piła
Declension
Declension of piła
Derived terms
verbs
- piłować impf
Etymology 2
Back-formation from piłka.
Noun
piła f
- (colloquial) augmentative of piłka
Declension
Declension of piła
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
piła
- third-person singular feminine past of pić
Further reading
- piła in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- piła in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- piła in PWN's encyclopedia
Upper Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpiwa/
- Rhymes: -iwa
- Hyphenation: pi‧ła
- Syllabification: pi‧ła
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pĩlà, *pilà. Cognate with Lower Sorbian piła.
Noun
piła f (diminutive piłka, related adjective piłowy)
- file, saw (instrument formed by a long, toothed steel blade, used to cut wood, stone, metals, etc.)
- sawmill (workshop where wood is sawn)
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
piła
- feminine singular l-participle of pić
References
- “piła” in Soblex