quilha - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.ʎɒ/

quilha f (plural quilhas)

1. skittle
2. (nautical) keel

• Rhymes: -iʎɐ
• Hyphenation: qui‧lha

Borrowed from French quille (“keel”),^[1][2] from Old Norse kilir, plural of kjǫlr (“keel”), from Proto-Germanic *keluz. Cognate with English keel.

quilha f (plural quilhas)

1. (nautical) keel (beam along the underside of a ship’s hull)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

quilha

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