noun
Meaning 1
A young female horse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
filly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈfɪli/
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rhymes with -ɪli
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homophone: Philly
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CMU ARPABET: F IH1 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A young, attractive woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Examples
- Hey, Homer, get a load of the gams on that filly!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a young female horse under the age of four
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: female, foal
History
Etymology
From Old Norse fylja (whence Danish føl), related to foal. Cognate with Dutch veulen, German Fohlen.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: mazore — young female horse
- Arabic: مُهْرَة (muhra) — young female horse
- Asturian: potra — young female horse
- Burmese: မြင်းမကလေး (mrang:ma.ka.le:) — young female horse
- Catalan: poltra — young female horse
- Chinese Mandarin: 小雌馬 /小雌马 (xiǎo cí mǎ) — young female horse
- Czech: kobylka — young female horse
- Czech: klisnička — young female horse
- Dutch: merrieveulen — young female horse
- Esperanto: ĉevalidino — young female horse
- Finnish: tammavarsa — young female horse
- French: pouliche — young female horse
- Galician: poldra — young female horse
- Galician: póldrega — young female horse
- German: Stutenfohlen — young female horse
- German: Stutenfüllen — young female horse
- German: Stutfohlen — young female horse
- German: Stutfüllen — young female horse
- German: weibliches Fohlen — young female horse
- German: weibliches Füllen — young female horse
- Greek: φοραδίτσα (foradítsa) — young female horse
- Ancient Greek: πῶλος (pôlos) — young female horse
- Hungarian: kancacsikó — young female horse
- Ido: kavalyunino — young female horse
- Italian: puledra — young female horse
- Japanese: 雌の子馬 (mesu no ko-uma) — young female horse
- Macedonian: ждребица (ždrebica) — young female horse
- Malay: kuda betina muda — young female horse
- Maltese: moħra — young female horse
- Norwegian Bokmål: hoppeføll — young female horse
- Plautdietsch: Kobbelfalm — young female horse
- Polish: klaczka — young female horse
- Portuguese: potra — young female horse
- Portuguese: potranca — young female horse
- Punjabi: ਵਛੇਰੀ (vacherī) — young female horse
- Romanian: mânză — young female horse
- Russian: кобы́лка (kobýlka) — young female horse
- Russian: кобыли́ца (kobylíca) — young female horse
- Russian: жереби́ца (žerebíca) — young female horse
- Scottish Gaelic: cliobag — young female horse
- Scottish Gaelic: làireach — young female horse
- Scottish Gaelic: loth — young female horse
- Serbo-Croatian: ждребица — young female horse
- Serbo-Croatian: ждријебица — young female horse
- Serbo-Croatian: ždrebica — young female horse
- Serbo-Croatian: ždrijebica — young female horse
- Slovene: žrebica — young female horse
- Spanish: potra — young female horse
- Spanish: potranca — young female horse
- Swedish: ungsto — young female horse
- Swedish: stoföl — young female horse
- Volapük: jijevodül — young female horse
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