pillar

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɪlə/
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• General-American: /ˈpɪlɚ/
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• South-Asia: /ˈpɪllə(r)/
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• rhymes with -ɪlə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: P IH1 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English piler, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pilāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pila (“a pillar, pier, mole”).

152 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ainu: イクㇲペ (ikuspe) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Albanian: shtyllë — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Arabic: عمود — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Arabic: عمود (ʕamūd) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Armenian: սյուն (syun) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Armenian: կոթող (kotʻoġ) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Armenian: հենարան (henaran) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Armenian: նեցուկ (necʻuk) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Armenian: պատվար (patvar) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Armenian: հենասյուն (henasyun) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Old Armenian: սիւն (siwn) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Aromanian: stur — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Aromanian: stil — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Aromanian: durec — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Assamese: খুঁটা (khũta) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Assamese: থাম (tham) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Asturian: pilar — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Azerbaijani: dirək — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Azerbaijani: sütun — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Bashkir: бағана (bağana) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Bashkir: баған (bağan) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Bashkir: колонна (kolonna) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Central Bikol: harigi — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Breton: post — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Breton: peul — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Bulgarian: стълб (stǎlb) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Bulgarian: колона (kolona) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Catalan: pilar — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Cebuano: haligi — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Chinese Mandarin: 柱子 (zhùzi) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Chinese Mandarin: 支柱 (zhīzhù) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Czech: pilíř — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Dalmatian: chilauna — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Danish: søjle — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Dutch: pijler — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Dutch: zuil — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Dutch: pilaar — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Egyptian: iwn (jwn) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Egyptian: w-xA-A-xt (wḫꜣ) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Egyptian: aA:Z1:M3 (ꜥꜣ) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Esperanto: piliero — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Etruscan: 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀 class inanimate (fala) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Finnish: pylväs — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Finnish: pilari — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• French: pilier — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• French: pile — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Galician: piar — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Georgian: სვეტი (sveṭi) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Georgian: დედაბოძი (dedaboʒi) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Georgian: საყრდენი (saq̇rdeni) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• German: Pfeiler — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• German: Säule — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃 (sauls) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Greek: στυλοβάτης (stylovátis) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Greek: κολώνα (kolóna) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Greek: στύλος (stýlos) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Ancient Greek: στῦλος (stûlos) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Ancient Greek: κίων (kíōn) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Hawaiian: kia — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Hawaiian: kulu — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Hebrew: עמוד ('amúd) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Hindi: स्तंभ (stambh) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Hindi: खंभा (khambhā) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Hungarian: oszlop — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Hungarian: pillér — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Indonesian: pilar — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Indonesian: tiang — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Irish: piléar — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Italian: pilastro — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Japanese: 柱 (hashira) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Kazakh: діңгек (dıñgek) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Khmer: សសរ (sɑsɑɑ) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Korean: 기둥 (gidung) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Latin: columna — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Lithuanian: piliorius — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Macedonian: сто́лб (stólb) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Macedonian: ди́рек (dírek) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Malagasy: andry — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Malay: tiang — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Malay: turus — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Malayalam: തൂണ് (tūṇŭ) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Malayalam: സ്തംഭം (stambhaṁ) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Manchu: ᡨᡠᡵᠠ (tura) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Māori: turu — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Māori: pou — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Māori: himu — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Mongolian: багана (bagana) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Norwegian Bokmål: søyle — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Norwegian Nynorsk: søyle — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Nupe: ekpó — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Occitan: pilar — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Persian: ستون (sotun) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Polish: filar — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Polish: słup — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Portuguese: pilar — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Romanian: stâlp — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Russian: столб (stolb) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Russian: коло́нна (kolónna) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Sanskrit: स्तम्भ (stambha) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Sanskrit: स्थूणा (sthūṇā) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Scottish Gaelic: colbh — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Scottish Gaelic: carragh — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Serbo-Croatian: стуб — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Serbo-Croatian: ступ — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Serbo-Croatian: стубац — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Serbo-Croatian: ступац — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Serbo-Croatian: stub — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Serbo-Croatian: stup — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Serbo-Croatian: stubac — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Serbo-Croatian: stupac — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Slovak: pilier — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Slovene: steber — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Slovene: slop — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Lower Sorbian: słup — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Spanish: pilar — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Swahili: majabali — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Swedish: pelare — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Swedish: stöttepelare — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Swedish: kolonn — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Tagalog: haligi — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Tahitian: turu — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Tahitian: arati‘a — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Tashelhit: anbdad — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Telugu: స్తంభము (stambhamu) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Telugu: స్థూణ (sthūṇa) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Telugu: కంబము (kambamu) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Thai: เสา (sǎo) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Thai: หลัก (làk) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Turkish: sütun — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Turkish: direk — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Ottoman Turkish: دیرك (direk) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Ottoman Turkish: پاینده (payende, payanda) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Ottoman Turkish: دستك (destek) — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Vietnamese: cột — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Yoruba: òpó — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Yoruba: òpómúléró — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Yucatec Maya: nahil koh — large post, often used as supporting architecture
• Armenian: հենասյուն (henasyun) — essential part of something
• Bulgarian: стълб (stǎlb) — essential part of something
• Chinese Mandarin: 棟樑 /栋梁 (dòngliáng) — essential part of something
• Chinese Mandarin: 中流砥柱 (zhōngliúdǐzhù) — essential part of something
• Hindi: आधार (ādhār) — essential part of something
• Italian: chiave di volta — essential part of something
• Persian: رکن (rokn) — essential part of something
• Polish: filar — essential part of something
• Polish: podstawa — essential part of something
• Russian: опло́т (oplót) — essential part of something
• Russian: опо́ра (opóra) — essential part of something
• Thai: หลัก (làk) — essential part of something
• Turkish: direk — essential part of something
• Yoruba: òpó — essential part of something
• Yoruba: òpómúléró — essential part of something