palla

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

• Palla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Aymara

Noun

palla

1. woman

Catalan

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palla

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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, Spanish paja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

• Audio

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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

• “palla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “palla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “palla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “palla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaʎa̝/

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, 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

• espallar
• palla perra
• palleiro
• palloza
• un palleiro non se fai sen palla

References

• “palla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “palla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “palla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “palla” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “palla” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian palla (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?), from Latin palla, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

palla (plural palla-palla, first-person possessive pallaku, second-person possessive pallamu, third-person possessive pallanya)

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.la/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -alla
• Hyphenation: pàl‧la

Etymology 1

Uncertain:

• From Medieval Latin balla, palla, bala, from Frankish *ball, from Proto-Germanic *balluz.
• From Lombardic *palla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”).
• Borrowed from Provençal or Occitan pelota, from Latin pila (“ball”).

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

• pallone

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin palla, of uncertain origin.

Noun

palla f (plural palle)

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

Related terms

• pallio

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

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”) (akin to pellis (“hide, pelt”)), or possibly a substrate loan.

Noun

palla f (genitive pallae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• pallium

Descendants

• → English: palla (learned)
• → Italian: palla (learned)
  • → Indonesian: palla
  • → Maltese: palla
• → Romanian: pală (learned)
• Proto-Brythonic: *pall
  • Middle Welsh: pall
    • Welsh: pall

Further reading

• “palla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “palla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palla 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)
• “palla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “palla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

References

Maltese

Etymology

From Italian palla, from Latin palla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.la/

Noun

palla f (plural palel)

1. (Christianity) pallium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• palle (e-infinitive)

Etymology

Related to Traveller Norwegian palla and Swedish palla, both with the same meaning.

Verb

palla (present tense pallar, past tense palla, past participle palla, passive infinitive pallast, present participle pallande, imperative palla/pall)

1. (slang) to bother to; to have the energy to, to feel up to

   Eg pallar tji gjøra det i dag for faen

   I don't feel up to do it today for fuck's sake

Synonyms

• gidde
• orke

Quechua

Noun

palla

1. lady, respected woman
2. female dancer

Declension

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin palea.

Noun

palla f

1. (Campidanese) straw

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• padda

Etymology

From Italian palla (“ball”), see above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalːa/
• Hyphenation: pal‧la

Noun

palla f (plural palli)

1. ball

Spanish

Verb

palla

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

Swedish

Etymology 1

Derived from Swedish criminal cant pall (“apple”). Attested since 1898.

Verb

palla (present pallar, preterite pallade, supine pallat, imperative palla)

1. (colloquial) To scrump; to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.

   Synonyms: stjäla (“steal”), knycka (“nick”)

   Ska vi gå och palla från grannen?

   Shall we go scrumping from the neighbor?

Etymology 2

Affix of pall +‎ -ar, from stå pall (“stand firm”). Borrowed from Dutch pal staan, from Low German pall staan.

Interjection sense possibly an ellipsis of the negative pallar inte ("do not have energy/stamina/will").

Verb

palla (present pallar, preterite pallade, supine pallat, imperative palla)

1. (colloquial) To have enough strength, will, or stamina for something.

   Synonyms: (dialectal) gitta, idas, orka, (archaic) tya

   Pallar du en runda till?

   Do you have strength/energy for another round?

Conjugation

Interjection

palla

1. (colloquial, can be seen as rude) to not have enough strength, will or stamina; to not be bothered to

   – Ska vi gå på bio?
   – Palla!

   – Shall we go and watch a movie?
   – I don't have enough energy! / – I can't be bothered to!

References

• palla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• palla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pall in Svensk ordbok (SO)