Learned borrowing from Latin pilāris, from Latin pilus (“a hair”) +‎ -ar.

pilar (not comparable)

1. (chiefly medicine) Relating to hair.

   pilar muscle; pilar cyst

2. Covered in hair; hairy.

• Paril, April, prial, Plair

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [piˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [piˈlaɾ]

pilar m (plural pilars)

1. pillar
2. (castells) a castell built with just one casteller on each level
3. (castells) each of the vertical columns of castellers making up the tronc of a castell (syn. rengla)

• pilar caminant
• pilar de dol

• “pilar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pilar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “pilar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pilar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Dutch pilaar, from Medieval Latin pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“a pillar”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpilar/ [ˈpi.lar]
• Rhymes: -ilar
• Syllabification: pi‧lar

pilar (plural pilar-pilar)

1. pillar:
   1. (architecture) a large post, often used as supporting architecture
   2. (figurative) an essential part of something that provides support

      Synonyms: dasar, induk

2. (nautical) mast: a tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires

• “pilar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Latin pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“a pillar”). Either inherited from Old Norse (compare Icelandic pílári) or a later borrowing.

pilar m (definite singular pilaren, indefinite plural pilarer, definite plural pilarene)

1. a pillar, column
2. a pier (of a bridge)

• grunnpilar

• “pilar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• piler

pilar f or m

1. indefinite masculine plural of pil

From Latin pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“a pillar”). Either inherited from Old Norse (compare Icelandic pílári) or a later borrowing.

pilar m (definite singular pilaren, indefinite plural pilarar, definite plural pilarane)

1. a pillar, column
2. a pier (of a bridge)

• grunnpilar

• “pilar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /piˈla/

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

pilar m (plural pilars)

1. pillar

From Old Occitan, inherited from Latin pīlāre (“to grind, pound”).

pilar

1. to crush; to pulverize

• trissar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

• pillar (pre-reform spelling)

• Homophone: pilhar (Madeira)
• Hyphenation: pi‧lar

pilar m (plural pilares)

1. pillar (large post, often used as supporting architecture)
2. (figurative) pillar (essential part of something)

Inherited from Latin pīlāre (“to grind, pound”). By surface analysis, pilão (“pestle”) +‎ -ar.

• Homophone: pilhar (Madeira)
• Hyphenation: pi‧lar

pilar (first-person singular present pilo, first-person singular preterite pilei, past participle pilado)

1. to grind using a pestle

• “pilar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pilar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From pila +‎ -ar.

pìlār m anim (Cyrillic spelling пѝла̄р)

1. sawyer

• “pilar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

• IPA^(key): /piˈlaɾ/ [piˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pi‧lar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīlāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

pilar m (plural pilares)

1. pillar, pier, mainstay
2. (rugby) prop (the player who is next to the hooker in a scrum)

Inherited from Latin pīlāre (“to grind, pound”).

pilar (first-person singular present pilo, first-person singular preterite pilé, past participle pilado)

1. to pound

• “pilar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “pilar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

pilar

1. indefinite plural of pil

pilar

1. present indicative of pila

• april

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