galla

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

From German Galla.

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

galla

1. (dated) Oromo (a language of Ethiopia)

• oromo

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʎa̝/

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

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

• 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

• a galla

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[1]:

• Perhaps from or influenced by Germanic, if the sense is "poison-sore"; see Proto-Germanic *gallǭ (English gall).
• From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”). Cognate with Latin glaeba, glomus and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.la/, [ˈɡälːʲä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.la/, [ˈɡälːä]

galla f (genitive gallae); first declension

1. the oak apple, gall-nut
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 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.

• gallula
• *galleus (“oaken”)

• Catalan: gala, agalla
• → English: gall
• French: galle
• Italian: galla
• Portuguese: galha, galho
• Russian: галл (gall)
• Spanish: galla, gajo

• “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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From Proto-Celtic *gasliyā, from *gas, of uncertain ultimate origin, but compare French gouine (“lesbian”), and Proto-Brythonic *gwėɣin (“sheath”).[1] Borrowed as Welsh gast (“a bitch”). Pott has adduced Spanish galgo (“greyhound”), which, however, is founded on canis Gallicus. See gasradh for root.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɫ̪ə/

galla f (genitive singular galla, plural gallachan)

1. bitch

• Often used as a swear word, especially in compounds.

• mac na galla
• nighean na galla
• thalla gu taigh na galla

• Syllabification: ga‧lla

galla f (plural gallas)

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

   Synonym: tipa

• “galla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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

galla c (uncountable)

1. bile

• gallblåsa
• gallfeber
• gallsten
• gallskrik

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɬa/

galla

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