grilla

See also: grillá

French

Verb

grilla

1. third-person singular past historic of griller

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• grillet

Verb

grilla

1. inflection of grille:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾiʝa/ [ˈɡɾi.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾiʝa/ [ˈɡɾi.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾiʎa/ [ˈɡɾi.ʎa] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾiʃa/ [ˈɡɾi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾiʒa/ [ˈɡɾi.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -iʎa (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: gri‧lla

Etymology 1

From grillo.

Noun

grilla f (plural grillas)

1. female cricket
2. (Colombia, derogatory) slut; whore

Verb

grilla

1. inflection of grillar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French grille or English grill.

Noun

grilla f (plural grillas)

1. grill
2. (Panama, Colombia, Chile, Rioplatense, motor racing) grid
3. (Panama, Colombia, Chile, Argentina) programming; TV listing
4. (Panama, Chile, Argentina) spreadsheet

Further reading

• “grilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “grilla”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Swedish

Etymology 1

Likely a variant of skrilla. First attested in 1910.

Noun

grilla c

1. (slang, Normally in plural: grillor) An ice skate

   Synonyms: skridsko, (slang) skrilla, (variant) grill

Declension

Declension of grilla

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	grilla	grillas
	definite	grillan	grillans
plural	indefinite	grillor	grillors
	definite	grillorna	grillornas

Etymology 2

From grill +‎ -a. First attested in 1941.

Verb

grilla (present grillar, preterite grillade, supine grillat, imperative grilla)

1. (transitive) To cook food on a grill
2. (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate

Conjugation

Conjugation of grilla (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	grilla		grillas
supine	grillat		grillats
imperative	grilla		—
imper. plural1	grillen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	grillar	grillade	grillas	grillades
ind. plural1	grilla	grillade	grillas	grillades
subjunctive2	grille	grillade	grilles	grillades
present participle		grillande
past participle		grillad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

• “grilla”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “grillor”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “grilla”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “grillor”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “grilla”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)