vainilla

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəjˈni.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəjˈni.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vajˈni.ʎa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

vainilla f (plural vainilles)

1. vanilla (plant or fruit)
2. vanilla sex (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Further reading

• “vainilla”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vainilla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “vainilla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “vainilla”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Spanish

Etymology

From vaina (“pod”) +‎ -illa (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /baiˈniʝa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /baiˈniʝa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /baiˈniʎa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʎa] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /baiˈniʃa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /baiˈniʒa/ [bai̯ˈni.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -iʎa (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: vai‧ni‧lla

Noun

vainilla f (plural vainillas)

1. vanilla (plant or fruit)
2. vanilla sex (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
3. (Argentina) ladyfinger

   Synonyms: bizcocho de soletilla, bizcocho

Derived terms

• extracto de vainilla (“vanilla extract”)
• vainillal
• vainillina

Descendants

• → Catalan: vainilla
• → English: vanilla
  • → Cantonese: 雲呢拿 / 云呢拿 (wan^4-6 nei¹ laa^4-2), 云呢拿 (wan^4-6 nei¹ laa^4-2)
  • → Icelandic: vanilla
  • → Manx: vanilley
  • → Thai: วานิลลา (wá-ní-laa)
• → French: vanille
  • → Danish: vanilje
  • → Dutch: vanille
  • → English: vanille
  • → Persian: وانیل (vânil)
  • → German: Vanille
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: vanilje
• → Friulian: vanilie
• → Italian: vaniglia
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: bainilha
  • Portuguese: baunilha
• → Piedmontese: vanilia
• → Polish: wanilia

Further reading

• “vainilla”, 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
• vainilla on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es