pala

From Latin pāla. Doublet of peel.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪlə/, /ˈpɑːlə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːlə

pala (plural palae)

1. A part of an insect's leg that is spade-shaped and can be used as a scoop for feeding.

pala (plural palas)

1. An Odisha art form consisting of Puranic texts expressed through music and dance.

• alap, lapa, pa'al

pala

1. Romanization of ᬧᬮ
2. Romanization of ᬧᬵᬮ
3. Romanization of ᬨᬮ

Borrowed from Spanish pala (“shovel, spade”).

• Hyphenation: pa‧la
• IPA^(key): /ˈpala/

pála

1. shovel, spade

From Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.la/

pala f (plural pales)

1. shovel, spade
2. blade (the widest, thinnest part of something)
3. paddle

   Synonym: rem

4. tongue (of a shoe)

   Synonym: llengüeta

5. dustpan

   Synonym: arreplegador

• palada
• palejar
• paleta

• “pala” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pala”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “pala” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pala” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Spanish pala (“shovel, spade”).

pala

1. shovel; spade

pala

1. a kind of rug

   Synonym: kilim

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• IPA^(key): [ˈpala]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: pa‧la

pala (accusative singular palan, plural palaj, accusative plural palajn)

1. pale; sallow

From Proto-Finnic *pala, from Proto-Uralic *pala. Cognates include Veps pala, Estonian pala, Erzya пал (pal), and Hungarian fal.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɑ/, [ˈpɑlɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧la

pala

1. piece, bit

   pala palalta ― piece by piece, piecemeal

2. lump, chunk
3. block
4. tablet, bar
5. (idiomatic) of something that is difficult to accept or endure; especially with the adjective vaikea

   Veronkorotus on äänestäjille vaikea pala.

   The tax increase is a hard pill to swallow for the voters.

   Hänen kuolemansa oli minulle kova pala.

   Her death was a hard blow for me.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɑˣ/, [ˈpɑlɑ(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧la

pala

1. present active indicative connegative of palaa

   Minä en pala. ― I don't burn.

2. second-person singular present imperative of palaa

   Pala! ― Burn!

3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of palaa

   Älä pala! ― Don't burn!

• lapa

Obscure. From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpalɐ]

pala f (plural palas)

1. rock shelter

   Synonym: paleira

2. burrow, den

   Synonyms: paleira, tobeira, tobo, toco, toqueira

• paleira

• “pala” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pala” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pala” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

pala

1. (transitive) to sell

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒlɒ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

pala (plural palák)

1. slate

• pala in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Malay pala, from Sanskrit फल (phala). Doublet of pahala.

• IPA^(key): /pa.la/
• Hyphenation: pa‧la

pala

1. nutmeg (Myristica fragrans).

• “pala” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɑ/, [ˈpɑɫɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɑ/, [ˈpɑɫɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Hyphenation: pa‧la

pala

1. piece, bit

   Pala leipää. ― A piece of bread.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɑ/, [ˈpɑɫɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlɑ/, [ˈpɑɫɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Hyphenation: pa‧la

pala

1. inflection of pallaa:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. second-person singular imperative connegative

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 378

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.la/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: pà‧la

From Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”).

pala f (plural pale)

1. shovel, trowel
2. blade (of a propellor, fan, etc.)
3. paddle
4. retable
5. altarpiece
6. pall
7. vane

• paletta

• → Turkish: pala

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pala

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

pala

1. Romanization of ꦥꦭ

Borrowed from Spanish pala.

pala

1. shovel

From Proto-Finnic *pala.

pala

1. bit

From Proto-Yeniseian *ʔapV (“hotness, sweat”). Compare Assan palá, pfóltu, paltu (“hot”).

pala

1. hotness

From Proto-Italic *pākslā, from Proto-Indo-European *pak-slo-, from root *peh₂ǵ-. See pangō, pāgus, pacīscor, pāx, pāgina.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.la/, [ˈpäːɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.la/, [ˈpäːlä]

pāla f (genitive pālae); first declension

1. A shovel, spade.

   Synonym: rutrum

2. The bezel of a ring.
   • c. 44 BC, Cicero, De Officiis, 3.38

     ibi cum palam eius anuli ad palmam converterat a nullo videbatur ipse autem omnia videbat

     As often as he turned the bezel of the ring inwards toward the palm of his hand, he became invisible to everyone, while he himself saw everything;

3. (Classical Latin, rare) the banana plant
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia XII.24:

     Maior alia pomo et suavitate praecellentior, quo sapientes Indorum vivunt. Folium alas avium imitatur, longitudine trium cubitorum, latitudine duum. Fructum cortice emittit admirabilem suci dulcedine, ut uno quaternos satiet. Arbori nomen palae, pomo arienae. Plurima est in Sydracis, expeditionum Alexandri termino.

     There is a greater one, surpassing other fruit trees even in softness, which Indian sages live on. Its leaf copies the wings of birds, being three cubits in length and two in width. It produces its fruit from its bark, and the fruit is astonishing in its sweetness, one being enough for four people. The name of the tree is the pala, and ariena that of the fruit. It is found in great number among the Sydraci, at the limit of Alexander the Great's campaigns.

First-declension noun.

• bipālium

• “pala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pala”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pala 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)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
    
• “pala”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pala”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• palā (Courland)

From Proto-Finnic *pala.

pala

1. bit

From Sanskrit फल (phala). Doublet of pahala.

• IPA^(key): /pa.la/
• Hyphenation: pa‧la
• Rhymes: -a

pala (Jawi spelling ڤالا‎, plural pala-pala, informal 1st possessive palaku, 2nd possessive palamu, 3rd possessive palanya)

1. nutmeg (Myristica fragrans).

• buah pala
• bunga pala
• kembang pala

• “pala” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from Italian pala or a Sicilian equivalent, eventually from Latin pala. For the sense “palm of the hand”, the phonetic similarity with Italian palma may be considered, though a direct derivation from “shovel” is also plausible.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːla/

pala f (plural pali)

1. shovel; spade

   Synonym: luħ

2. (usually in the construction pala tal-id) palm of the hand; or the inner part of the hand (including the fingers)

   Synonyms: keff, keffa

From Proto-Central New South Wales *balaŋ, cognate with Wiradhuri balang.

pala

1. head

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɐlɐ]

pala

1. (demonstrative) that, there

   Watingku pala tii tjikini. ― That man is drinking tea.

• nyara

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.la/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: pa‧la

pala

1. genitive singular of pal

Borrowed from Latin pala. Doublet of pá.

• Rhymes: -alɐ
• Hyphenation: pa‧la

pala f (plural palas)

1. (heraldry) pale

pala (Cyrillic spelling пала)

1. inflection of pȁsti:
   1. feminine singular active past participle
   2. neuter plural active past participle

From Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpala/ [ˈpa.la]

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• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: pa‧la

pala f (plural palas)

1. shovel, spade
2. blade of an oar, a shovel, etc.
3. (shoemaking) upper, vamp
4. setting (piece of metal in which a precious gem is fixed)
5. paddle
6. (baking) peel

• Chavacano: pala

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

Compare Bikol Central palan.

• Hyphenation: pa‧la
• IPA^(key): /paˈla/, [pɐˈla]

palá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎ)

1. expressing sudden realization; exclamation of surprise.

   Ikaw palá! ― So it's you!

• pala-

From Malay pahala (“reward; grant”), from Sanskrit फल (phála, “fruit; benefit”).

• Hyphenation: pa‧la
• IPA^(key): /ˈpalaʔ/, [ˈpa.lɐʔ] (noun: reward)
• IPA^(key): /paˈlaʔ/, [pɐˈlaʔ] (noun: consequence)

palà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎ)

1. blessing; grace; bounty; favor

   Synonyms: biyaya, kaloob, gantimpala, premyo

2. reward; bounty; prize; renumeration

   Synonyms: kaloob, gantimpala, premyo, pabuya

palâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎ)

1. recompense; consequence

   Synonym: hita

From Spanish pala (“shovel; spade”).

• Hyphenation: pa‧la
• IPA^(key): /ˈpala/, [ˈpa.lɐ]

pala (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎ)

1. shovel; spade
2. (colloquial) person paid to applaud or perform paid activities

• araro

• “pala”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Wolff, John U. (1976), “Malay borrowings in Tagalog”, in C.D. Cowan & O.W. Wolters, editors, Southeast Asian History and Historiography: Essays Presented to D. G. E. Hall‎, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, page 359

Borrowed from Italian pala.

• IPA^(key): /paˈɫa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧la

pala (definite accusative palayı, plural palalar)

1. machete

• pala çekmek

• pala in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “pala”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

From Proto-Finnic *pala.

pala

1. piece, bit
2. part
3. share, portion
4. chapter (of a book)
5. scene (of a play, film)
6. plate

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “глава, доля, кусок, пластинка, сцена, часть, член”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Compare Ternate fala, Tidore fola, Tabaru woa, etc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.l̪a/

pala

1. house

   pala ne ilamo ― this house is large

2. nest

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

Borrowed from Spanish pala, from Latin pāla.

pala

1. shovel

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎, segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 22