pillaje

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /piˈʝaxe/ [piˈʝa.xe]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /piˈʝaxe/ [piˈʝa.xe]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /piˈʎaxe/ [piˈʎa.xe]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /piˈʃaxe/ [piˈʃa.xe]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /piˈʒaxe/ [piˈʒa.xe]

• Rhymes: -axe
• Syllabification: pi‧lla‧je

Noun

pillaje m (plural pillajes)

1. pillage
   • 2009 June 16, “CPI juzgará a ex vicepresidente congolés”, in BBC Mundo‎^[1]:

     Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo tiene responsabilidad criminal por los asesinatos, violaciones y pillajes cometidos por sus milicias...

     Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo is criminally responsible for the murders, rapes and pillages committed by his militias...

Further reading

• “pillaje”, 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