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Meaning of "quillai" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD QUILLAI

Via American Spanish from Araucanian.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF QUILLAI

quillai  [kɪˈlaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUILLAI

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quillai is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUILLAI


Alai
ɑːˈlaɪ
ally
əˈlaɪ
belie
bɪˈlaɪ
disally
ˌdɪsəˈlaɪ
forelie
fɔːˈlaɪ
July
dʒuːˈlaɪ
misally
ˌmɪsəˈlaɪ
mislie
ˌmɪsˈlaɪ
outlie
ˌaʊtˈlaɪ
overlie
ˌəʊvəˈlaɪ
rely
rɪˈlaɪ
underlie
ˌʌndəˈlaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUILLAI

quietude
quietus
quiff
quight
quill
quill pen
quillai bark
quillback
Quiller-Couch
quillet
quilling
quillman
quillon
quillwork
quillwort
Quilmes
quilt
quilted
quilter
quilting

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUILLAI

ai
chai
Chennai
Chou En-lai
Dubai
jai
jai alai
kai
Mumbai
Nicolai
rai
rasmalai
remblai
sai
samurai
shanghai
Tai
Thai
wai
Weihai

Synonyms and antonyms of quillai in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «quillai» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF QUILLAI

Find out the translation of quillai to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of quillai from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «quillai» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

quillai
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

quillay
570 millions of speakers

English

quillai
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

quillai
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

quillai
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

quillai
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quillai
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

quillai
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

quillaya
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Quillai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Quillai
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キラヤ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

quillai
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Quillai
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quillai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

quillai
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्विल्लई
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

quillai
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

quillai
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Quillaia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

quillai
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Quillaia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Quillai
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

quillai
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Quillai
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

quillai
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of quillai

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUILLAI»

The term «quillai» is barely ever used and occupies the 195.929 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «QUILLAI» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «quillai» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «quillai» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about quillai

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUILLAI»

Discover the use of quillai in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to quillai and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The American Medical Intelligencer
A. D. Craloner, M. D. My dear Sir, — I regret that I have not yet heard from my friend Dr. Styles on the subject of the extract of quillai, which is supposed by Dr. A. D. Chaloner to be the same article as monesia. which has attracted so much ...
‎1841
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Household medicine: containing a familiar description of ...
A valuable remedy, combining a powerful stimulating action on the skin and a detergent or cleansing effect, is South American soap bark or quillai. If a piece of this bark is stirred about in a pint of water until it produces a strong lather, and this  ...
John GARDNER (M.D.), 1861
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Three years in the Pacific; containing notices of Brazil, ...
They are always neat in the decoration of their feet ; — silk stockings are universally worn. Dona Carmencita apologised for the state of her parure, saying that she had just been washing her hair in a solution or suds of " quillai," and it had ...
William Samuel W. Ruschenberger, 1835
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The Geographical, Natural and Civil History of Chili
The. quillai (quillaja saponaria, gen. nev.*) derives its name from the Chilian word quillcan, to wash. The trunkof this tree exceeds the middle height, and is covered 'with a thick bark. of a greyish ash colour ~; it divides itself at the top into two or ...
Juan Bautista Ignacio Molina
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CRC World Dictionary of Plant Nmaes: Common Names, ...
Quillaja Molina Rosaceae Origins: Spanish quillay, from the vernacular Araucani name quillai, killai; see H. Genaust, Etymologisches Worterbuch der bot- anischen Pflanzennamen. 524. 1996; S. Battaglia, Grande dizionario del la lingua ...
Umberto Quattrocchi, 1999
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The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili
The quillai (quillaja sapouaria, gen. nov.*) derives its name from the C'-hilian word quillczm, to wash. The trunk of this tree exceeds the middle height, and is covered with a thick bark of a greyish ash colour ; it divides itself at the top into two or ...
J. Ignatius Molina, 1809
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The Geographical, Natural and Civil History of Chili: With ...
Instead of soap, the composition of which they had not discovered although acquainted with lie, they employed the bark of the quillai which is an excellent substitute. From the seeds of the madi, they obtained an oil which is very good to eat ...
Giovanni Ignazio Molina, 1808
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Three Years in the Pacific
ing that she had just been washing her hair in a solution or suds of "quillai," and it had not yet dried. The " quillai" is the bark of the Quillaja Saponaria, Molina, a large tree growing at the foot of hills, and in the mountain valleys of Chile.
Sa William Samuel Waithman Rushenberger, William Rushenberger, 2009
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The Geographical, Natural and Civil History of Chili: The ...
The wood is hard and compact, of a dark brown veined with black and yellow, receives an excellent polish, and is used by several kinds of artisans for the handles of their tools. The quillai (quillaja saponaria, gen. nov.*) derives its name from ...
Giovanni Ignazio Molina, Richard Alsop, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, 1808
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Arcana of Science and Art, Or, An Annual Register of Useful ...
It is obtained from atree in Chili, known by the name of Quillai Saponaria, the trunk of which is straight, and of considerable height. The wood is hard, red, and never splits. The bark is rugged, divided, fibrous, of an ash grey colour externally,  ...
‎1830

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUILLAI»

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FOAMING FACIAL WASH - aerosol pjena bazirana je na bazi Quillai ekstrakta , Kanzo pudera i akva fit enzima zadržavajući vlagu u koži. Ova izrazito bogata ... «Tportal, Dec 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Quillai [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/quillai>. May 2024 ».
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