piel

From Dutch piemel.

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piel (plural piele, diminutive pieletjie)

1. (informal) penis, dick, cock

Inherited from Latin pellem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjel/
• Syllabification: piel
• Rhymes: -el

piel f (plural piele)

1. skin

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “piel”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin pellis, pellem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjel/ [ˈpjel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: piel

piel f (plural pieles)

1. (anatomy) skin (of a human)

   Synonym: pelleyu

• “piel”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “piel”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

From Old High German *pīl, northern variant of pfīl (“arrow”), from Latin pīlum. As a noun, the word has been lost in the dialects and has been reintroduced as Feil from cognate German Pfeil.

• IPA^(key): /piːl/

piel

1. (Ripuarian) straight up; steeply

   Hä schmieß der Ball piel en de Loff.

   He throws the ball straight up in the air.

• IPA^(key): /pil/

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piel m (plural pielen, diminutive pieltje n)

1. (regional) duckling

Variant of pijl.

piel m (plural pielen, diminutive pieltje n or pieletje n)

1. (Netherlands, informal) penis

From Latin pellis, pellem.

piel f (plural piels)

1. skin

Inherited from Latin pellem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjel/, [ˈpjel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Hyphenation: piel

piel f (plural pieles)

1. skin

• “piel”, in Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano [Spanish-Leonese / Leonese-Spanish Dictionary] (in Spanish), La Asociación L'Alderique, 2012–2025
• “piel”, in Pallabreiru Llïonés [Leonese Dictionary] (in Spanish), 2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: piel

piel

1. second-person singular imperative of pleć
2. second-person singular imperative of pielić

• piel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Old Spanish piel (with an etymological plural pielles alongside analogical pieles), from Latin pellem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjel/ [ˈpjel]

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• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: piel

piel f (plural pieles)

1. skin
2. fur

   Synonyms: pelo, pelaje

• “piel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024