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pala

pala

See also: palá, pāla, pală, palą, pała, and pala-

English

Noun

pala (plural palae)

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

Anagrams


Crimean Tatar

Noun

pala

  1. a kind of rug

Declension

Synonyms


Esperanto

Adjective

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

  1. pale; sallow

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑlɑ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
  • Hyphenation: pa‧la

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *pala. Cognates include Veps pala, Estonian pala, and Hungarian fal.[1]

Noun

pala

  1. piece, bit
    pala palalta = piece by piece, piecemeal
  2. lump, chunk
  3. block
  4. tablet, bar
Declension
Inflection of pala (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative pala palat
genitive palan palojen
partitive palaa paloja
illative palaan paloihin
singular plural
nominative pala palat
accusative nom. pala palat
gen. palan
genitive palan palojen
palainrare
partitive palaa paloja
inessive palassa paloissa
elative palasta paloista
illative palaan paloihin
adessive palalla paloilla
ablative palalta paloilta
allative palalle paloille
essive palana paloina
translative palaksi paloiksi
instructive paloin
abessive palatta paloitta
comitative paloineen

Etymology 2

Verb

pala

  1. Indicative present connegative form of palaa.
    (Minä) en/ (Sinä) et/ Hän ei/ (Me) emme/ (Te) ette/ He eivät pala.
    I/You/We/You/They don't / She/He doesn't burn.
  2. Second-person singular imperative present form of palaa.
    Pala!
    Burn!
  3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of palaa.
    Älä pala!
    Don't burn!

Anagrams

References

  1. Entry #695 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɒlɒ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧la

Noun

pala (plural palák)

  1. slate

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative pala palák
accusative palát palákat
dative palának paláknak
instrumental palával palákkal
causal-final paláért palákért
translative palává palákká
terminative paláig palákig
essive-formal palaként palákként
essive-modal
inessive palában palákban
superessive palán palákon
adessive palánál paláknál
illative palába palákba
sublative palára palákra
allative palához palákhoz
elative palából palákból
delative paláról palákról
ablative palától paláktól
Possessive forms of pala
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. palám paláim
2nd person sing. palád paláid
3rd person sing. palája palái
1st person plural palánk paláink
2nd person plural palátok paláitok
3rd person plural palájuk paláik

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pāla (shovel, spade).

Noun

pala f (plural pale)

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

Verb

pala

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

Kott

Etymology

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

Noun

pala

  1. hotness

Related terms


Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pak-slo-, from root *peh₂ǵ-. See Latin pangō, pāgus, paciscor, pāx, pāgina.

Pronunciation

Noun

pāla f (genitive pālae); first declension

  1. A shovel, spade.
  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;

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative pāla pālae
genitive pālae pālārum
dative pālae pālīs
accusative pālam pālās
ablative pālā pālīs
vocative pāla pālae

Derived terms

  • bipālium

Synonyms

Descendants

References

  • 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, 1883–1887)
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

Ngiyambaa

Etymology

Compare Wiradhuri balang.

Noun

pala

  1. head

Pitjantjatjara

Pronoun

pala

  1. (there) he, she, it, they

Related terms

See also


Polish

Noun

pala

  1. genitive singular of pal

Portuguese

Noun

pala f (plural palas)

  1. (heraldry) pale

Spanish

Etymology

Latin pāla (shovel, spade).

Noun

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

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish pala.

Noun

pala

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

Inflection

Inflection of pala
nominative sing. pala
genitive sing. palan
partitive sing. palad
partitive plur. paloid
singular plural
nominative pala palad
accusative palan palad
genitive palan paloiden
partitive palad paloid
essive-instructive palan paloin
translative palaks paloikš
inessive palas paloiš
elative palaspäi paloišpäi
illative ? paloihe
adessive palal paloil
ablative palalpäi paloilpäi
allative palale paloile
abessive palata paloita
comitative palanke paloidenke
prolative paladme paloidme
approximative I palanno paloidenno
approximative II palannoks paloidennoks
egressive palannopäi paloidennopäi
terminative I ? paloihesai
terminative II palalesai paloilesai
terminative III palassai
additive I ? paloihepäi
additive II palalepäi paloilepäi

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