babilla

French

Verb

babilla

1. third-person singular past historic of babiller

Spanish

Etymology

Diminutive of baba by association with synovial fluid.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /baˈbiʝa/ [baˈβ̞i.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /baˈbiʝa/ [baˈβ̞i.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /baˈbiʎa/ [baˈβ̞i.ʎa] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /baˈbiʃa/ [baˈβ̞i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /baˈbiʒa/ [baˈβ̞i.ʒa] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /baˈbia/ [baˈβ̞i.a] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -iʎa (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -iʒa (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -ia (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Syllabification: ba‧bi‧lla

Noun

babilla f (plural babillas)

1. the stifle, or hind knee, of a quadruped
2. (Colombia) spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus)

Further reading

• “babilla”, 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