kala

Albanian Wikipedia has an article on:

Kalaja

Wikipedia ^sq

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قلعه (kale), from Persian قلعه (qal'e), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa).

• (Tosk) IPA^(key): /kaˈla/
• Rhymes: -la
• Hyphenation: ka‧lá

kalá f (plural kala, definite kalaja, definite plural kalatë)

1. castle, fortress

   Synonym: kështjellë

2. fortification

   Synonym: fortifikatë

3. (figurative) ardent defender
4. (figurative) hurdle, obstacle: something difficult to be overcome only by great effort

   u bë kala ― it became difficult

5. (chess) rook

   Synonym: torrë

• “kala”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe ‎, 1980
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “kalá”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 175

• IPA^(key): /kala/

kala (Bengali script কালা)

1. deaf person

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /kalə/
• Hyphenation: ka‧la

Borrowed from Old Javanese kāla (“time”), from Sanskrit काल (kāla)

kala (Balinese script ᬓᬮ) (medya)

1. time
2. solar eclipse
3. seventh day of the eight-day week

From Sanskrit काल (kāla).

kala (Balinese script ᬓᬵᬮ)

1. (Hinduism) demon Kala

Borrowed from Old Javanese kala, kalā (“snare”).

kala (Balinese script ᬓᬮᬵ)

1. snare

• “kala” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary , Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province .

kala

1. nothing

kala

1. no, not

• kalav

From either Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā or Latin culmus, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Breton kolo.

kala f (singulative kalaven)

1. (collective) straw

   Synonym: gwel kala

2. drinking straw

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala.

kala (genitive kala, partitive kala)

1. fish

• kalastama
• kalamari
• kalur

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

kala

Wikipedia ^fi

silakka (“(Baltic) herring”)

ahven (“(European) perch”)

lohi (“(Atlantic) salmon”)

särki (“(common) roach”)

erilaisia kaloja (“different kinds of fish”)

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala. Cognates include Northern Sami guolli, Ter Sami кы̄лле (kï̄llʼe), Erzya кал (kal), Eastern Mari кол (kol) and Hungarian hal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧la

kala

1. fish (aquatic animal)

   Hauki on kala.

   A pike is a fish.

   Tässä järvessä on paljon kalaa.

   There's lots of fish in this lake.

2. fish (meat of the aforementioned aquatic animals)

   Syön usein kalaa.

   I often eat fish.

3. (idiomatic, in locational cases and expressions) fishing (as a personal activity, used with the verbs olla (“to be”) and mennä (“to go”), lähteä (“to leave”), and käydä (“to go and come back”))

   olla kalassa ― to be fishing

   käydä kalassa ― to go fishing (and come back)

   mennä kalaan ― to go fishing

   lähteä kalaan ― to (leave and) go fishing

   lähteä kalalle ― to (leave and) go fishing

   Käytkö usein kalassa?

   Do you often go fishing?

4. (in compounds) seafood

   Mennään kalaravintolaan.

   Let's go to a seafood restaurant.

• (fish, aquatic animals): Quite often used in the singular in a collective sense, as can be seen in one of the usage examples.

• “kala”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja ‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

From Arabic كُلَّ (kulla).

kala

1. each, every, all

• denndaangal
• kalamaa
• kalamanni
• mo kala

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

kala

1. thigh

• Gurindji language words from the 50 words project from the Research Unit for Indigenous Language at the University of Melbourne. Retrieved 7 November 2024.

From Proto-Polynesian *tala (“spine, prong”) – compare with Maori tara (“thorn, spike, tine, tooth”), Tahitian tara (“horn, spur, sting”), Tongan tala and Samoan tala. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.la/,

kala

1. (obsolete) horn, spike, thorn

   Synonyms: kākala, hao, kiwi

2. sharkskin
3. surgeonfish

• kākala
• hoʻokala

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ka‧la
• Rhymes: -laʔ

kala

1. Semelfactive or non-iterative aspect i. e. the action or situation has happened once or more but did not repeat itself

From Old Norse kala.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaːla/
  • Rhymes: -aːla

kala (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative kól, third-person plural past indicative kólu, supine kalið)

1. (impersonal) to become frostbitten

   Mig kól á tám.

   My toes became frostbitten.

• kal

• IPA^(key): /ˈkala/
• Hyphenation: ka‧la
• Rhymes: -la, -a

From Malay kala, from Classical Malay kala, from Sanskrit काल (kāla, “time”) or Sanskrit कला (kalā, “a division of time”). Doublet of kali.

kala (plural kala-kala)

1. time

   Synonyms: masa, waktu

2. when: during the time that

   Synonym: ketika

3. (geology) epoch: a geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs)

   Synonym: epok (Standard Malay)

4. tense;
   1. (grammar) any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists
   2. (linguistics, grammar, countable) an inflected form of a verb that indicates tense

• kala akan datang (“future tense”)
• kala kini (“present tense”)
• kala lampau (“past tense”)

From Malay kala, from Javanese ꦏꦭ (kala, “stinging animal, scorpion”), from Sanskrit कालक (kālaka, “scorpion”).

kala (plural kala-kala)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) any member of scorpiones order
2. (obsolete) scorpion

   Synonym: kalajengking

From Malay kala, from Classical Malay kala.

kala (plural kala-kala)

1. (obsolete) silk

   Synonym: sutra

From Malay kala, from Classical Malay kala, from Javanese ꦏꦭ (kala, “bird noose, snare”), from Old Javanese kalā.

kala (plural kala-kala)

1. (obsolete) snare

   Synonym: jerat

From Malay kala, from Arabic قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ). Doublet of qada.

kala (plural kala-kala)

1. (obsolete) synonym of qada

• kala hajat

• “kala” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala. Cognates include Finnish kala and Estonian kala.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlɑ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Hyphenation: ka‧la

kala

1. fish
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 11:

     Kapa, kala, kala, kana.

     Dried fish, fish, fish, hen.

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, P. L. Maksimov, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 37:

     Hää ono voimakas kala ja kasvaa suureks.

     It's a strong fish and grows big.

   • 1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:

     — Kala, kala — ohto tiukkaa! Ota matokkaine suuhu.

     — Fish, fish — quit playing! Put a mollusk in your mouth.

• elokas (“animal”)

• zveeri (“animal”), lintu (“bird”)

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “кала”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи , Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ , page 683
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 126
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 82

kala

1. romanization of ꦏꦭ

From Proto-Finnic *kala. Cognates include Finnish kala and Estonian kala.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlɑ/
• Hyphenation: ka‧la

kala (genitive kalan, partitive kalua)

1. fish

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kala”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) , →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “рыба”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja , →ISBN

kala

1. third-person singular/plural past indicative of kalt

From Proto-Finnic *kala. Cognates include Finnish kala and Estonian kala.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlɑ/
• Hyphenation: ka‧la

kala (genitive kalan, partitive kalua)

1. fish

• N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu ‎ (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 3
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) , 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 92

From Proto-Finnic *kala.

kala

1. fish

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /kalə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /kala/
• Rhymes: -alə, -lə, -ə

From Sanskrit काल (kāla, “time”).

kala (Jawi spelling کالا, plural kala-kala)

1. time (inevitable passing of events)
2. time (quantity of availability in time)
3. time (time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc)
4. time (particular moment or hour)
5. time (measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time)
6. time (numerical indication of a particular moment in time)

• masa / ماس
• waktu / وقتو

From Javanese kala (“stinging animal”).

kala (Jawi spelling کالا, plural kala-kala)

1. scorpion

kala

1. fire
2. firewood

• Suzanne M. Prober, Emma Yuen, Michael H. O'Connor, Les Schultz, Ngadju kala: Ngadju fire knowledge and contemporary fire management in the Great Western Woodlands, Wembley, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Coolgardie, Ngadju Conservation.
• Carl Georg von Brandenstein, 1980, Ngadjumaja: An Aboriginal Language of South-East Western Australia, Innsbruck, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck.

kala

1. branch (of a tree)

• IPA^(key): /ka.la/
• Rhymes: -la
• Homophones: kalā, kāla
• Hyphenation: ka‧la

Borrowed from Sanskrit काला (kālā, “black; dark”).

kala

1. wicked, evil, base, false

• Javanese: ꦏꦭ (kala, “evil; demon”)

From Sanskrit शङ्ख (śaṅkha, “trumpet, horn”, literally “shell, conch-shell”) +‎ काल (kāla, “time, hour”).

kala

1. trumpet

From Sanskrit कालक (kālaka, “scorpion”).

kala

1. scorpion

• Javanese: ꦏꦭ (kala, “stinging animal”)
  • → Indonesian: kala (“stinging animal”)

kala

1. alternative spelling of kalā (“noose, snare”)

From Proto-Germanic *kalaną, whence also Old English calan. Ultimately from an o-grade present of Proto-Indo-European *gel-.

kala

1. (impersonal) to cause to freeze (idiomatically translated as "freeze" with the accusative object as the subject)

   mik kell ― I freeze; I become frost-bitten

• Icelandic: kala
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kala, (past participle) kalen
• Swedish: kala (dialectal)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kala”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.la/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: ka‧la

kala

1. third-person singular present of kalać

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈla/,

kala

1. prey; game

kala (Cyrillic spelling кала)

1. genitive singular of kal

kala

1. romanization of 𒆗 (kala)

kala

1. inflection of kal:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

From English color.

kala

1. color

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala.

kala

1. fish

• kalankazvatai
• kalankazvatuz
• kalansuug

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “рыба”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ ‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala.

• IPA^(key): /kɑlɑ/

This entry needs an audio pronunciation. If you are a native speaker with a microphone, please record this word. The recorded pronunciation will appear here when it's ready.

kala (genitive kala, partitive kalla)

1. fish

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Hyphenation: ka‧la

kala

1. fish

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat , 2nd edition, Tallinn

kala

1. born (to be)

kala

1. to join, to unite

kala

1. to hunt

• Mbugu: kala

• Maarten Mous, The Making of a Mixed Language: The Case of Ma'a/Mbugu

-kála

1. to weigh