perilla

See also: Perilla, perillà, and perillä

English

Purple perilla

Etymology

From translingual Perilla (genus name).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈɹɪl.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Noun

perilla (countable and uncountable, plural perillas)

1. An East Asian herb with flavorful leaves used in cooking and as a garnish, Perilla frutescens. Also grown for the seeds, which contain an edible and industrially-useful oil.
   • 2015, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian, Granta, published 2018, page 42:

     The smell of burnt flesh, which the perilla seeds couldn't wholly mask, pricked my nose.

Synonyms

• beefsteak plant (purple-leaved variety)
• shiso

Translations

East Asian herb

• Catalan: alfàbrega japonesa f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紫蘇／紫苏 (ji² sou¹)

  Mandarin: 紫蘇／紫苏 (zh) (zǐsū)

• Daur: bal
• Finnish: veripeippi (fi)
• French: perilla (fr) f, pérille (fr) f, pérille de Nankin (fr) f
• Japanese: 紫蘇 (ja) (shiso), シソ (ja) (shiso)
• Korean: 들깨 (deulkkae), 깻잎 (ko) (kkaennip) (leaves)
• Nepali: सिलाम (silām)
• Russian: пери́лла (ru) f (perílla), судза́ f (sudzá)
• Vietnamese: tía tô (vi)

Anagrams

• pallier

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈɾi.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peˈɾi.ʎa]
• Rhymes: -iʎa

Verb

perilla

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

Spanish

Etymology

From pera ‎ -illa.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /peˈɾiʝa/ [peˈɾi.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /peˈɾiʝa/ [peˈɾi.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /peˈɾiʎa/ [peˈɾi.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /peˈɾiʃa/ [peˈɾi.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /peˈɾiʒa/ [peˈɾi.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa
• Rhymes: -iʎa
• Rhymes: -iʃa
• Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: pe‧ri‧lla

Noun

perilla f (plural perillas)

1. goatee

   Synonyms: (Mexico) piocha, barba de chivo, chiva, chivera

2. knob, doorknob

   Synonyms: manecilla, pomo

Further reading

• “perilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28