billar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French billard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [biˈʎar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [biˈʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [biˈʎaɾ]

Noun

billar m (plural billars)

1. billiards

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French billard.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /biˈʝaɾ/ [biˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /biˈʝaɾ/ [biˈʝaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /biˈʎaɾ/ [biˈʎaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /biˈʃaɾ/ [biˈʃaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /biˈʒaɾ/ [biˈʒaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bi‧llar

Noun

billar m (plural billares)

1. billiards
2. pool (game)
3. an establishment accommodating billiard tables; a billiard room

Derived terms

• mesa de billar

 

Further reading

• “billar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Yagara

Noun

billar

1. spear

References

• Eipper, Christopher, STATEMENT OF THE ORIGIN, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS, OF THE GERMAN MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES AT MORETON BAY, CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1841.