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galla (plural gallas)

  1. Alternative form of gallu (Mesopotamian demon)

From Middle High German galle, from Old High German galla, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ. Cognate with German Galle, English gall.

galla f (Sette Comuni)

  1. bile
  2. gall (impudence)

    Ze hat an gròoses hèertze bàdar an grössora galla.

    He has a big heart but a bigger gall.
  • “galla” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Borrowed from German Galla.

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡala]
  • Rhymes: -ala
  • Hyphenation: ga‧l‧la

galla f (indeclinable)

  1. (dated) Oromo (language)
    Synonym: oromština
  • galla”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From German Galla.

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɑlːɑ/, [ˈɡɑ̝lːɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑlːɑ
  • Hyphenation(key): gal‧la

galla (dated)

  1. Oromo (a language of Ethiopia)
Gallas

Probably from Vulgar Latin *gallea, from Latin galla (oak-apple).[1]

galla f (plural gallas)

  1. twig
    Synonym: guizo
  2. branch
    Synonym: póla
  3. forked branch
  4. prong
  5. (also in the plural) fork
  6. barb (of a hook)
  7. gall (tumorous growt)
    Synonyms: bugallo, carrabouxo, coco
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “gajo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

galla

  1. inflection of gallar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡal.la/
  • Rhymes: -alla
  • Hyphenation: gàl‧la

From Latin galla.

galla f (plural galle)

  1. gall
  2. acorn
  3. round pill
  4. pimple (caused by sunburn)
  5. hairgrip

galla

  1. feminine singular of gallo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

galla

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

There are various hypotheses:

galla f (genitive gallae); first declension

  1. an oak apple, gall-nut
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.267:

      proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem []
      It is good too to blend a taste of pounded oak apples []
  2. a harsh, sour kind of wine

First-declension noun.

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “gel-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 357
  • galla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • galla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "galla", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • galla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • galla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • galla”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From Proto-West Germanic *gallā, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.

galla f

  1. gall, bile
  • galla (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Celtic *gasliyā, from *gas, of uncertain ultimate origin. Pott has adduced Spanish galgo (greyhound), which, however, is founded on canis Gallicus. See gasradh for root.

galla f (genitive singular galla, plural gallachan)

  1. bitch
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈɡaʝa/ [ˈɡa.ʝa]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈɡaʎa/ [ˈɡa.ʎa]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈɡaʃa/ [ˈɡa.ʃa]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈɡaʒa/ [ˈɡa.ʒa]
  • Syllabification: ga‧lla

galla f (plural gallas)

  1. (Chile, colloquial) female equivalent of gallo, broad (US), chick, gal (woman)
    Synonym: tipa

From Old Swedish galle, from Old Norse gall, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.

galla c (uncountable)

  1. bile
  • gall (literary, second-person singular imperative)
  • gallaf (first-person singular present/future)

galla

  1. inflection of gallu:
    1. first-person singular present/future colloquial
    2. (rare) second-person singular imperative