pill

Etymology 1

 * From (also ), a borrowing from  or  (whence 🇨🇬), probably from,.
 * Generalized from.

Noun

 * 1)   A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
 * 2)   Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).
 * 3)   Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
 * 4) Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
 * 5) * 1907,, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45]:
 * "It's a sad unpalatable truth," said Mr. Pembroke, thinking that the despondency might be personal, "but one must accept it. My sister and Gerald, I am thankful to say, have accepted it, so naturally it has been a little pill."
 * 1)  A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
 * 2)  A comical or entertaining person.
 * 3)  A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
 * 4)  A baseball.
 * 5)  A bullet projectile.
 * 6)  A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
 * 1) * 1907,, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45]:
 * "It's a sad unpalatable truth," said Mr. Pembroke, thinking that the despondency might be personal, "but one must accept it. My sister and Gerald, I am thankful to say, have accepted it, so naturally it has been a little pill."
 * 1)  A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
 * 2)  A comical or entertaining person.
 * 3)  A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.
 * 4)  A baseball.
 * 5)  A bullet projectile.
 * 6)  A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
 * 1)  A baseball.
 * 2)  A bullet projectile.
 * 3)  A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
 * 1)  A bullet projectile.
 * 2)  A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

Usage notes
The word pill referring to a swallowable unit conveying a dose of medication is polysemic in that it has a broad sense and a narrower sense: broadly, it means any such object, including any or, whereas narrowly, it means a  (including the  type of tablet) but not a. But the broad sense of the word is widely used in general vocabulary, and also in the medical and nursing literature; linguistically this is predictably inevitable, because natural language has a practical need for a simple hypernym that intuitively covers all such oral dosage forms, and the word pill provides one by long-established idiomatic convention, with no alternative synonym that is thus established. Thus, trying to enforce a that insists that the word must never be used in its broad sense is counterproductive to clear and concise communication. This is why some publications' style sheets specify that the words, , and will be used wherever technical precision is needed and that the word pill will be reserved for contexts where the technical precision is irrelevant because the hypernymic concept is clearly meant, as for example in an instruction to ask the patient whether they remember taking all their pills this morning.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: pil
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: حَبَّة دَوَاء, قُرْص,, حَبَّة
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Assamese: বৰি, টেবলেট, গুলী
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: табле́тка, пілю́ля
 * Bengali: পিল,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 藥丸, 藥片, 藥餅
 * Hokkien:, , 藥餅
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar: ap
 * Czech: pilulka,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dhivehi: ގުޅަ
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: pilolo
 * Estonian: tablett,
 * Faroese: bolli, tablett
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:, ტაბლეტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati: ગોળી
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: пилюля, дәрі, таблетка
 * Khmer:, ថ្នាំលេប
 * Korean:, , ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: حەب
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: таблетка, пилюля
 * Lao: ກ້ອນ, ຢາກ້ອນ, ຢາເມັດ, ເມັດ, ລູກກອນ
 * Latin: pilula
 * Latvian: tablete, pilula
 * Lithuanian: piliulė,
 * Macedonian: апче, табле́та, пилула
 * Malay: pil, tablet
 * Maori: pire, pirepire
 * Marathi: गोळी
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Mongolian: ᠡᠮ᠎ᠡ, ᠦᠷᠢᠯ
 * Nahuatl: motolotlanoquiloni
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: pille
 * Ojibwe: bebiikominagak, mashkikiins
 * Oromo: kinniinii
 * Ossetian: таблеткӕ
 * Pashto: ګولۍ, تابلېت
 * Persian:
 * Dari: گُولِی⁩
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Pell
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пѝлула, таблѐта
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:, tabblettu
 * Slovak: pilulka, tableta
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: ҳаб, қурс
 * Tarifit: reknina
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ยาเม็ด,
 * Tocharian B: ṣpakīye, ṣpel
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: tabletka
 * Ukrainian: пігу́лка, пілю́ля, табле́тка
 * Urdu: گولی, ٹَیبْلیٹ
 * Uyghur: تابلىتكا
 * Uzbek:, hapdori,
 * Vietnamese:, viên thuốc
 * Yiddish: פּיל


 * Afrikaans: pil
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: antikoncipa pilolo, morgaŭa pilolo
 * Faroese: p-bolli
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, pilule contraceptive
 * German:
 * Greek: το χάπι
 * Hungarian: fogamzásgátló (tabletta)
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: контрацепти́вна пилула
 * Polish: tabletka antykoncepcyjna,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: противозача́точная табле́тка
 * Sicilian: pìnnula cuntraccittiva
 * Spanish:, pastilla anticonceptiva, , píldora anticonceptiva
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: mucica
 * Slovene: mucka
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: куршу́м, гюле́
 * French: ,
 * Russian: ,

Verb

 * 1)  Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
 * 2) To form into the shape of a pill.
 * Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.
 * 1)  To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.
 * She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.
 * Pilling the cat is such a nightmare.
 * 1)  To persuade or convince someone of something.
 * 2)  To blackball (a potential club member).
 * 1)  To blackball (a potential club member).

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 起毛球
 * Czech: žmolkovat se
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Polish: mechacić się, zmechacić się
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: žmolkovať sa


 * Finnish: pyörittää pillereitä


 * Finnish: ottaa pillereitä

Etymology 2
From, , from , from , from. .

Verb

 * 1)  To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
 * 2) To peel; to make by removing the skin.
 * 3) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
 * 4)  To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.
 * 1)  To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.



Noun

 * 1)  The peel or skin.

Etymology 3
From, , from , from , diminutive of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1)   An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

Etymology
A form of pidh from, from. Cognate to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) vagina
 * 2) cunt (vulgar)

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  instrument

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  pill

Etymology 1
Through reinterpretation of as the lenition of.

Noun

 * 1)  finicky or fiddly activity

Usage notes
Could be translated as "finickness" or "finick" (finicky activity) if any of those were used in English. See for intuition.