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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English pilwe, from Old English pylwe, pylu, pyle (“pillow”), from Proto-Germanic *pulwin (“pillow”), from Latin pulvīnus (“cushion”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Dutch peluw (“pillow, bolster”), German Pfühl (“pillow”).
Pronunciation [edit]
pillow (plural pillows)
- A soft cushion used to support the head in bed.
- (geology) A pillow lava.
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Translations [edit]
soft cushion used to support the head in bed
- Afrikaans: kussing (af)
- Albanian: jastëk (sq)
- Amharic: ትራስ (am) (təras)
- Arabic: وسادة (ar) (wisāda) f, مِخدة (ar) (Miḵadda) f
- Egyptian Arabic: مخدة (maḵádda) f
- Armenian: բարձ (hy) (barj)
- Azeri: balış (az), yastıq (az)
- Bashkir: мендәр (mendər), яҫтыҡ (yaśtıq)
- Belarusian: падушка (be) (padúška) f
- Bulgarian: възглавница (bg) (vǎzglavnica) f
- Catalan: coixí (ca) m
- Chechen: гӀайба (ġayba), (for sitting) миндар (mindar)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 枕頭 (cmn), 枕头 (cmn) (zhěntou)
- Chuvash: çытар (śıtar), минтер (minter)
- Classical Nahuatl: cuāchicpalli, tzonicpalli
- Crimean Tatar: yastıq
- Czech: polštář (cs) m
- Danish: pude (da) c
- Dutch: kussen (nl) n
- Esperanto: kuseno (eo)
- Finnish: tyyny (fi)
- French: oreiller (fr) m
- Gagauz: yastık
- Galician: almofada (gl) f
- Georgian: ბალიში (ka) (bališi)
- German: Kopfkissen (de) n, Kissen (de) n; Ruhekissen (de) n (Austria)
- Greek: μαξιλάρι (el) (maxilári) n
- Gujarati: ઓશીકું (gu) (oshiku)
- Hebrew: כרית (he) (karít) f
- Hindi: तकिया (hi) (takiyā) m
- Hungarian: párna (hu), vánkos (hu)
- Icelandic: koddi (is) m
- Indonesian: bantal (id)
- Interlingua: cossino
- Italian: guanciale (it) m, cuscino (it) m
- Japanese: 枕 (ja) (まくら, makura)
- Jèrriais: ouothilyi
- Kalmyk: дер (der)
- Karachay-Balkar: (Balkar) жастыкъ (castıq), (Karachay) джастыкъ (castıq)
- Kazakh: жастық (kk) (jastıq), көпшік (kk) (köpşik)
- Khakas: частых (çastıx)
- Korean: 베개 (ko) (begae)
- Kumyk: ястыкъ (yastıq), бойлукъ (boyluq)
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pillow (third-person singular simple present pillows, present participle pillowing, simple past and past participle pillowed)
- (transitive) To rest as on a pillow.
- 1942: She had pillowed her head on her arm — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 815-6)