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] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiʎa/ [ˈt͡ʃi.ʎa] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiʒa/ [ˈt͡ʃi.ʒa] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃia/ [ˈt͡ʃi.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: chi‧lla

Etymology 1

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.

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