See Smilla on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "kl",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Greenlandic",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From the name of a character in Peter Høeg's book (1992) translated as Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow. Explained in the book as short form of Smillaaraq, coined by adding initial S to a Greenlandic name Millaaraq.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "Smilla",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Danish",
"lang_code": "da",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Danish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Danish female given names",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Danish given names",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name of modern usage"
],
"id": "en-Smilla-da-name-Dqu8A-XR",
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Smilla"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "da",
"3": "Smilla"
},
"expansion": "Danish Smilla",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Danish Smilla, or directly from the Swedish translation of Peter Høeg's book.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Smillas",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "proper noun",
"3": "genitive",
"4": "Smillas",
"g": "c",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "Smilla c (genitive Smillas)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "Smilla c (genitive Smillas)",
"name": "sv-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swedish female given names",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swedish given names",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name of modern usage"
],
"id": "en-Smilla-sv-name-Dqu8A-XR",
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Smilla.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Smilla.wav/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Smilla.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Smilla.wav/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Smilla.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "Smilla"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "kl",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Greenlandic",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From the name of a character in Peter Høeg's book (1992) translated as Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow. Explained in the book as short form of Smillaaraq, coined by adding initial S to a Greenlandic name Millaaraq.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "Smilla",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Danish",
"lang_code": "da",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Danish entries with incorrect language header",
"Danish female given names",
"Danish given names",
"Danish lemmas",
"Danish proper nouns",
"Danish terms derived from Greenlandic",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name of modern usage"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Smilla"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "da",
"3": "Smilla"
},
"expansion": "Danish Smilla",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Danish Smilla, or directly from the Swedish translation of Peter Høeg's book.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Smillas",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "proper noun",
"3": "genitive",
"4": "Smillas",
"g": "c",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "Smilla c (genitive Smillas)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "Smilla c (genitive Smillas)",
"name": "sv-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish female given names",
"Swedish given names",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish proper nouns",
"Swedish terms derived from Danish"
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name of modern usage"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Smilla.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Smilla.wav/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Smilla.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Smilla.wav/LL-Q9027_%28swe%29-Moonhouse-Smilla.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "Smilla"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Smilla meaning in All languages combined (2.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.