mirilla

Spanish

View through a peephole

Barack Obama looking through the Oval Office door peephole

Etymology

Diminutive form of mira.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /miˈɾiʝa/ [miˈɾi.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /miˈɾiʝa/ [miˈɾi.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /miˈɾiʎa/ [miˈɾi.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /miˈɾiʃa/ [miˈɾi.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /miˈɾiʒa/ [miˈɾi.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

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

• Syllabification: mi‧ri‧lla

Noun

mirilla f (plural mirillas)

1. peephole, (UK) spyhole

Further reading

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