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galla (plural gallas)
- 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)
- bile
- 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
galla f (indeclinable)
- “galla”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
galla (dated)
- Oromo (a language of Ethiopia)

Probably from Vulgar Latin *gallea, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”).[1]
galla f (plural gallas)
- twig
- Synonym: guizo
- branch
- Synonym: póla
- forked branch
- prong
- (also in the plural) fork
- barb (of a hook)
- gall (tumorous growt)
- Synonyms: bugallo, carrabouxo, coco
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “galla”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “galla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “galla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “galla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ 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
- inflection of gallar:
galla f (plural galle)
galla
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
galla
- inflection of gallare:
There are various hypotheses:
- Perhaps from or influenced by Germanic, if the sense is "poison-sore"; see Proto-Germanic *gallǭ (English gall (“bile”)) or *gallô (“sore, swelling, lesion”) (English gall (“sore”)).
- From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”). Cognate with Latin glaeba, glomus and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”).[1]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈɡal.la/, [ˈɡälːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡal.la/, [ˈɡälːä]
galla f (genitive gallae); first declension
First-declension noun.
- Catalan: gala, agalla
- → English: gall
- French: galle
- Italian: galla
- Portuguese: galha, galho
- → Russian: галл (gall)
- Spanish: galla, gajo
- ^ 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
- Middle Dutch: galle
- “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)
- Often used as a swear word, especially in compounds.
- Syllabification: ga‧lla
galla f (plural gallas)
- “galla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
From Old Swedish galle, from Old Norse gall, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.
galla c (uncountable)
- galla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- galla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- galla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- Svensk MeSH
galla
- inflection of gallu: