mirilla

Spanish

View through a peephole

Barack Obama looking through the Oval Office door peephole

Etymology

Diminutive form of mira.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /miˈɾiʝa/ [miˈɾi.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /miˈɾiʝa/ [miˈɾi.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /miˈɾiʎa/ [miˈɾi.ʎa] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /miˈɾiʃa/ [miˈɾi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /miˈɾiʒa/ [miˈɾi.ʒa] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /miˈɾia/ [miˈɾi.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: mi‧ri‧lla

Noun

mirilla f (plural mirillas)

1. peephole, (UK) spyhole

Further reading

• “mirilla”, 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