chilla

See also: chillá

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chilla.

Noun

chilla (plural chillas)

1. The South American gray fox.

Anagrams

• Cahill

Mapudungun

Noun

chilla

1. saddle, mount
2. fox (South American gray fox)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• chillet

Verb

chilla

1. inflection of chille:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiʝa/ [ˈt͡ʃi.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiʝa/ [ˈt͡ʃi.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiʎa/ [ˈt͡ʃi.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiʒa/ [ˈt͡ʃi.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• 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: chi‧lla

Etymology 1

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

chilla

Wikipedia ^es

Borrowed from Mapudungun chilla (“fox”).

Noun

chilla f (plural chillas)

1. the South American gray fox

   Synonyms: zorro gris, zorro patagónico

Etymology 2

Verb

chilla

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

Further reading

• “chilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Etymology

From English chill +‎ -a.

Verb

chilla (present chillar, preterite chillade, supine chillat, imperative chilla)

1. (slang) to kick back (relax)

   Hon chillar i poolen

   She's relaxing in the pool

2. (slang) to chill (calm down from an agitated state)

   Chilla!

   Chill!

Conjugation

Conjugation of chilla (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	chilla		chillas
supine	chillat		chillats
imperative	chilla		—
imper. plural1	chillen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	chillar	chillade	chillas	chillades
ind. plural1	chilla	chillade	chillas	chillades
subjunctive2	chille	chillade	chilles	chillades
present participle		chillande
past participle		—

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Synonyms

• softa

References

• Slangopedia