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From the common Welsh placename element Pil meaning "tidal pool, harbor," itself borrowed from English pill (“tidal creek”).

English surname, both from the noun pill (originally "little ball") and from sense 3 (“inlet, tidal creek”).

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pil-? Latin pilus? Latin pila Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ula Latin pilula, pillulabor. Middle Low German pilleder. Middle Dutch pilleder. Middle English pille English pill From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula. * (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.

From Middle English pillen, pilen, from Old English pilian (“to peel”), from Latin pilō (“depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of peel.

From Middle English *pill, *pyll, from Old English pyll (“a pool, pill”), from Proto-Germanic *pullijaz (“small pool, ditch, creek”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“pool, stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *bl̥nos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Old English pull (“pool, creek”), Scots poll (“slow moving stream, creek, inlet”), Icelandic pollur (“pond, pool, puddle”). More at pool.

228 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: pil — small object for swallowing
• Albanian: pilulë — small object for swallowing
• Arabic: حَبَّة دَوَاء (ḥabbat dawāʔ) — small object for swallowing
• Arabic: قُرْص (qurṣ) — small object for swallowing
• Arabic: حَبّ (ḥabb) — small object for swallowing
• Arabic: حَبَّة (ḥabba) — small object for swallowing
• Armenian: հաբ (hab) — small object for swallowing
• Armenian: դեղահատ (deġahat) — small object for swallowing
• Armenian: դեղահաբ (deġahab) — small object for swallowing
• Assamese: বৰি (bori) — small object for swallowing
• Assamese: টেবলেট (tebolet) — small object for swallowing
• Assamese: গুলী (guli) — small object for swallowing
• Azerbaijani: həb — small object for swallowing
• Belarusian: табле́тка (tabljétka) — small object for swallowing
• Belarusian: пілю́ля (piljúlja) — small object for swallowing
• Bengali: পিল (pil) — small object for swallowing
• Bengali: বটিকা (boṭika) — small object for swallowing
• Bulgarian: табле́тка (tablétka) — small object for swallowing
• Bulgarian: ха́пче (hápče) — small object for swallowing
• Bulgarian: хап (hap) — small object for swallowing
• Burmese: ဆေးလုံး (hce:lum:) — small object for swallowing
• Catalan: píndola — small object for swallowing
• Chinese Cantonese: 藥丸 /药丸 — small object for swallowing
• Chinese Cantonese: 藥片 /药片 — small object for swallowing
• Chinese Cantonese: 藥餅 /药饼 (joek6 beng2) — small object for swallowing
• Chinese: 藥丸 /药丸 (zh-min-nan) — small object for swallowing
• Chinese: 藥片 /药片 (zh-min-nan) — small object for swallowing
• Chinese: 藥餅 /药饼 (io̍h-pián) — small object for swallowing
• Chinese Mandarin: 藥丸 /药丸 (yàowán) — small object for swallowing
• Chinese Mandarin: 藥片 /药片 (yàopiàn) — small object for swallowing
• Crimean Tatar: ap — small object for swallowing
• Czech: pilulka — small object for swallowing
• Czech: tableta — small object for swallowing
• Danish: pille — small object for swallowing
• Danish: tablet — small object for swallowing
• Dhivehi: ގުޅަ (guḷa) — small object for swallowing
• Dutch: pil — small object for swallowing
• Esperanto: pilolo — small object for swallowing
• Estonian: tablett — small object for swallowing
• Estonian: pill — small object for swallowing
• Faroese: bolli — small object for swallowing
• Faroese: tablett — small object for swallowing
• Finnish: pilleri — small object for swallowing
• Finnish: tabletti — small object for swallowing
• French: pilule — small object for swallowing
• French: comprimé — small object for swallowing
• Georgian: აბი (abi) — small object for swallowing
• Georgian: ტაბლეტი (ṭableṭi) — small object for swallowing
• German: Tablette — small object for swallowing
• German: Pille — small object for swallowing
• Greek: χάπι (chápi) — small object for swallowing
• Greek: δισκίο (diskío) — small object for swallowing
• Gujarati: ગોળી (goḷī) — small object for swallowing
• Hebrew: כַּדּוּר (kadúr) — small object for swallowing
• Hebrew: גְּלוּלָה (glulá) — small object for swallowing
• Hindi: गोली (golī) — small object for swallowing
• Hindi: गुटिका (guṭikā) — small object for swallowing
• Hindi: टैबलेट (ṭaibleṭ) — small object for swallowing
• Hungarian: tabletta — small object for swallowing
• Hungarian: pirula — small object for swallowing
• Hungarian: pilula — small object for swallowing
• Icelandic: pilla — small object for swallowing
• Ido: pilulo — small object for swallowing
• Indonesian: pil — small object for swallowing
• Indonesian: tablet — small object for swallowing
• Italian: pillola — small object for swallowing
• Italian: compressa — small object for swallowing
• Italian: pasticca — small object for swallowing
• Italian: pastiglia — small object for swallowing
• Japanese: 錠剤 (jōzai) — small object for swallowing
• Japanese: 丸薬 (gan'yaku) — small object for swallowing
• Japanese: ピル (piru) — small object for swallowing
• Kazakh: пилюля (pilülä) — small object for swallowing
• Kazakh: дәрі (därı) — small object for swallowing
• Kazakh: таблетка (tabletka) — small object for swallowing
• Khmer: គុលិកា (kulikaa) — small object for swallowing
• Khmer: ថ្នាំលេប (thnam leip) — small object for swallowing
• Korean: 알약 (aryak) — small object for swallowing
• Korean: 알 (al) — small object for swallowing
• Korean: 정제 (jeongje) — small object for swallowing
• Korean: 환약 (hwanyak) — small object for swallowing
• Central Kurdish: حەب (ḧeb) — small object for swallowing
• Northern Kurdish: heb — small object for swallowing
• Kyrgyz: таблетка (tabletka) — small object for swallowing
• Kyrgyz: пилюля (pilyulya) — small object for swallowing
• Lao: ກ້ອນ (kǭn) — small object for swallowing
• Lao: ຢາກ້ອນ (yā kǭn) — small object for swallowing
• Lao: ຢາເມັດ (yā met) — small object for swallowing
• Lao: ເມັດ (met) — small object for swallowing
• Lao: ລູກກອນ (lūk kǭn) — small object for swallowing
• Latin: pilula — small object for swallowing
• Latvian: tablete — small object for swallowing
• Latvian: pilula — small object for swallowing
• Lithuanian: piliulė — small object for swallowing
• Lithuanian: tabletė — small object for swallowing
• Macedonian: апче (apče) — small object for swallowing
• Macedonian: табле́та (tabléta) — small object for swallowing
• Macedonian: пилула (pilula) — small object for swallowing
• Malay: pil — small object for swallowing
• Malay: tablet — small object for swallowing
• Māori: pire — small object for swallowing
• Māori: pirepire — small object for swallowing
• Marathi: गोळी (goḷī) — small object for swallowing
• Mongolian: эм (em) — small object for swallowing
• Mongolian: үрэл (ürel) — small object for swallowing
• Mongolian: ᠡᠮ᠎ᠡ (em-e) — small object for swallowing
• Mongolian: ᠦᠷᠢᠯ (üril) — small object for swallowing
• Nahuatl: motolotlanoquiloni — small object for swallowing
• Norwegian Bokmål: pille — small object for swallowing
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pille — small object for swallowing
• Ojibwe: bebiikominagak — small object for swallowing
• Ojibwe: mashkikiins — small object for swallowing
• Oromo: kinniinii — small object for swallowing
• Ossetian: таблеткӕ (tabletkæ) — small object for swallowing
• Pashto: ګولۍ (golᶕy) — small object for swallowing
• Pashto: تابلېت (tāblet) — small object for swallowing
• Dari: گُولِی (gūlī) — small object for swallowing
• Iranian Persian: قُرْص (ġors) — small object for swallowing
• Iranian Persian: حَب (hab) — small object for swallowing
• Plautdietsch: Pell — small object for swallowing
• Polish: pigułka — small object for swallowing
• Polish: tabletka — small object for swallowing
• Polish: pastylka — small object for swallowing
• Portuguese: comprimido — small object for swallowing
• Portuguese: pílula — small object for swallowing
• Romanian: pilulă — small object for swallowing
• Romanian: tabletă — small object for swallowing
• Romanian: comprimat — small object for swallowing
• Russian: табле́тка (tablétka) — small object for swallowing
• Russian: пилю́ля (piljúlja) — small object for swallowing
• Serbo-Croatian: пѝлула — small object for swallowing
• Serbo-Croatian: таблѐта — small object for swallowing
• Serbo-Croatian: pìlula — small object for swallowing
• Serbo-Croatian: tablèta — small object for swallowing
• Sicilian: pìnnula — small object for swallowing
• Sicilian: tabblettu — small object for swallowing
• Slovak: pilulka — small object for swallowing
• Slovak: tableta — small object for swallowing
• Slovene: pilula — small object for swallowing
• Slovene: tableta — small object for swallowing
• Spanish: píldora — small object for swallowing
• Spanish: pastilla — small object for swallowing
• Spanish: comprimido — small object for swallowing
• Spanish: tableta — small object for swallowing
• Swahili: kidonge — small object for swallowing
• Swahili: tembe — small object for swallowing
• Swedish: piller — small object for swallowing
• Swedish: tablett — small object for swallowing
• Tajik: ҳаб (hab) — small object for swallowing
• Tajik: қурс (qurs) — small object for swallowing
• Tamil: மாத்திரை (māttirai) — small object for swallowing
• Tarifit: reknina — small object for swallowing
• Telugu: మాత్ర (mātra) — small object for swallowing
• Thai: ยาเม็ด (yaa-mét) — small object for swallowing
• Thai: เม็ด (mét) — small object for swallowing
• Tocharian B: ṣpakīye — small object for swallowing
• Tocharian B: ṣpel — small object for swallowing
• Turkish: hap — small object for swallowing
• Turkish: tablet — small object for swallowing
• Turkish: komprime — small object for swallowing
• Turkmen: tabletka — small object for swallowing
• Ukrainian: пігу́лка (pihúlka) — small object for swallowing
• Ukrainian: пілю́ля (piljúlja) — small object for swallowing
• Ukrainian: табле́тка (tablétka) — small object for swallowing
• Urdu: گولی (golī) — small object for swallowing
• Urdu: ٹَیبْلیٹ (ṭaibleṭ) — small object for swallowing
• Uyghur: تابلىتكا (tablitka) — small object for swallowing
• Uzbek: tabletka — small object for swallowing
• Uzbek: hapdori — small object for swallowing
• Uzbek: dori — small object for swallowing
• Vietnamese: viên — small object for swallowing
• Vietnamese: viên thuốc — small object for swallowing
• Yiddish: פּיל (pil) — small object for swallowing
• Afrikaans: pil — contraceptive pill
• Catalan: píndola — contraceptive pill
• Chinese Mandarin: 避孕藥 /避孕药 (bìyùnyào) — contraceptive pill
• Danish: pille — contraceptive pill
• Dutch: pil — contraceptive pill
• Esperanto: antikoncipa pilolo — contraceptive pill
• Esperanto: morgaŭa pilolo — contraceptive pill
• Faroese: p-bolli — contraceptive pill
• Finnish: ehkäisypilleri — contraceptive pill
• Finnish: pilleri — contraceptive pill
• French: pilule — contraceptive pill
• French: pilule contraceptive — contraceptive pill
• German: Pille — contraceptive pill
• Greek: το χάπι (to chápi) — contraceptive pill
• Hungarian: fogamzásgátló (tabletta) — contraceptive pill
• Japanese: ピル (piru) — contraceptive pill
• Japanese: 避妊薬 (hinin'yaku) — contraceptive pill
• Korean: 피임약 (piimyak) — contraceptive pill
• Macedonian: контрацепти́вна пилула (kontraceptívna pilula) — contraceptive pill
• Polish: tabletka antykoncepcyjna — contraceptive pill
• Polish: pigułka — contraceptive pill
• Portuguese: pílula — contraceptive pill
• Russian: противозача́точная табле́тка (protivozačátočnaja tablétka) — contraceptive pill
• Sicilian: pìnnula cuntraccittiva — contraceptive pill
• Spanish: píldora anticonceptiva — contraceptive pill
• Swedish: p-piller — contraceptive pill
• Finnish: hitunen — small piece of any substance
• Finnish: rahtu — small piece of any substance
• Chinese Mandarin: 毛球 — ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing
• Finnish: nukka — ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing
• German: Fussel — ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing
• Italian: fuffa — ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing
• Portuguese: borboto — ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing
• Russian: ка́тышек (kátyšek) — ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing
• Serbo-Croatian: mucica — ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing
• Slovene: mucka — ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing
• Spanish: frisado — ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing
• Bulgarian: куршу́м (kuršúm) — bullet
• Bulgarian: гюле́ (gjulé) — bullet
• French: dragée — bullet
• French: balle — bullet
• Russian: пу́ля (púlja) — bullet
• Russian: масли́на (maslína) — bullet
• Chinese Mandarin: 起毛球 — to form small matted balls of fiber
• Czech: žmolkovat se — to form small matted balls of fiber
• Finnish: nukata — to form small matted balls of fiber
• Finnish: nukkaantua — to form small matted balls of fiber
• French: boulocher — to form small matted balls of fiber
• Polish: mechacić się — to form small matted balls of fiber
• Polish: zmechacić się — to form small matted balls of fiber
• Russian: ска́тываться (skátyvatʹsja) — to form small matted balls of fiber
• Russian: ската́ться (skatátʹsja) — to form small matted balls of fiber
• Slovak: žmolkovať sa — to form small matted balls of fiber
• Finnish: pyörittää pillereitä — to form into a shape of pill
• Finnish: ottaa pillereitä — to medicate with pills