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See also: Palla and pallá

English

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian palla (“ball”). Doublet of ball.

Noun

palla (uncountable)

  1. A traditional Tuscan ball game played in the street.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin palla. Doublet of pall.

Noun

palla (plural pallae)

  1. (historical) A rectangular piece of cloth worn by ladies in Ancient Rome and fastened with brooches.

Further reading

Aymara

Noun

palla

  1. woman

Catalan

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan palla, from Latin palea, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Compare Occitan palha, French paille, Italian paglia, Sicilian pagghia, Spanish paja.

Pronunciation

Noun

palla f (plural palles)

  1. straw, hay
  2. drinking straw
    Synonym: canya
  3. (of gems, metal) flaw
  4. (of writing) padding

Derived terms

References

Galician

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese palha (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palea. Cognate with Portuguese palha, Asturian paya and Spanish paja.

Pronunciation

Noun

palla f (plural pallas)

  1. (countable) a straw
  2. (uncountable) straw
    • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:
      Jtem. deue o potro comer feo, palla, herua, orio, auea, espelqa, que quer dizer melga, et as qousas semellauelles a esto, que naturalmente som para seu comer.
      Item. The foal must eat hay, straw, grass, barley, oat, spelt —that is, melga— and things that are similar to these, which are naturally for them to eat
    • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 418:
      e da cárrega de palla, un diñeiro e do carro da casqa, duas brancas
      for a load of hay, [they shall pay] a diñeiro, and by a cartload of bark, two brancas
  3. (uncountable) chaff
    • 1276, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Dominguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 375:
      et este pan deue a seer qual o Deus der no logar et seer linpo de palla et de poo, d'eruellada et de mosceyra, et deue a seer ben seco et ben linpo et bõõ pan
      and this grain must be that that God gives at that place, and it must be clean of chaff and dust, of vetch and fodder, and it must be well dry and well clean and good grain
  4. (informal, vulgar) a wank

Derived terms

References

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalla/
  • Rhymes: -la, -a
  • Hyphenation: pal‧la

Noun

palla (plural palla-palla)

  1. (Catholicism) Alternative spelling of pala

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin balla, palla, bala, from Frankish *ballu, from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Alternatively, via Lombardic *palla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô, from the same ultimate origin. Compare Sicilian baḍḍa.

Noun

palla f (plural palle)

  1. (sports) ball (object used for playing games)
  2. ball (solid or hollow sphere)
  3. (historical, firearms) bullet, shot
    Hypernym: proiettile
  4. (usually in the plural, vulgar) testicles
    Synonyms: (vulgar) coglione, testicolo
  5. (informal, figurative) something dull or boring
    Che palle!
    What a drag!
  6. (colloquial) lie
    Synonym: bugia
  7. (heraldry) circle-shaped charge
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin palla, of uncertain origin.

Noun

palla f (plural palle)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) palla (cloth worn by ladies)

Etymology 3

Perhaps an extension in sense of the above lemma.

Noun

palla f (plural palle)

  1. (Catholicism) a cloth used to cover a chalice during services

Further reading

  • palla1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • palla2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • palla3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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