billar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French billard.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

billar m (plural billars)

1. billiards

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish billar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈʎaɾ/, [biˈʎaɾ]
• Hyphenation: bi‧llar

Noun

billár

1. billiards

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French billard.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /biˈʝaɾ/ [biˈʝaɾ]

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

• Audio (Venezuela):

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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

• billar electrónico
• mesa de billar

Further reading

• “billar”, 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

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.