szpilka

== Polish == === Alternative forms === śpilka (Przemyśl) === Etymology === From Italian spilla + Polish -ka. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʂpil.ka/ Rhymes: -ilka Syllabification: szpil‧ka Homophone: Szpilka === Noun === szpilka f (diminutive szpileczka, augmentative szpila, related adjective szpilkowy) pin (needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening) stiletto heel (heel of a shoe that is very high and narrow, at least 10 centimeters (4 inches)) stiletto (woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (called a stiletto heel)) (colloquial, in the plural) pins (sharp pain resembling that of stabbing the body in many places) Synonym: szpile ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Belarusian: шпі́лька (špílʹka) → Ukrainian: шпи́лька (špýlʹka) → Yiddish: שפּילקע (shpilke) === Further reading === “szpilka”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “szpilki”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “szpilka”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish) szpilki in PWN's encyclopedia