pulla
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish pulla, from Swedish bulle. Doublet of bowl and boule.
Noun
pulla (countable and uncountable, plural pullas)
- A sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten in Finland.
- 1986, Melissa Ladenheim, "The sauna in central New York:
- "Then we would all have coffee and pulla bread," recalled Hilma Wainio of Spencer.
- 1991 September 22, Eleanor Charles, “Connecticut Guide”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Other locally made items include pulla, a foot-long braided bread flavored with cardamom and priced at $6 a loaf, and wood carvings.
- 1992, Joan Potter Loveless, Three Weavers, page 29:
- Pulla is a braided yeast loaf, flavored with freshly ground cardamom and sprinkled with chopped almonds and sugar […]
- 1992, Aili Jarvenpa, In Two Cultures: The Stories of Second Generation Finnish Americans:
- I remember the best, the years on the farm, wild roses and mushrooms that you picked near the pasture, cardamom pulla warm from the oven, […]
- 2013, Colleen Coble, Rock Harbor Search and Rescue: Lost and Found, page 106:
- Come on, your dad's grabbed us all some pullas and cider.
- 2018, Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., Zoë François, Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day: Sweet and Decadent Baking for Every Occasion:
- You can expect to be served a slice of pulla with your afternoon coffee in any Finnish household.
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish bulle, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ. Doublet of pullo.
Pronunciation
Noun
pulla
- cardamom bread, pulla (mildly sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency)
- (broadly) sweet roll, sweet bun (sweet, leavened baked good, often small enough to comprise a single serving)
- (in compounds) ball (roundish food made of meat or similar ingredient and often cooked)
- Synonym: pyörykkä
- lihapulla ― meatball
- falafel-pulla ― falafel ball
Declension
Inflection of pulla (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pulla | pullat | |
genitive | pullan | pullien | |
partitive | pullaa | pullia | |
illative | pullaan | pulliin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pulla | pullat | |
accusative | nom. | pulla | pullat |
gen. | pullan | ||
genitive | pullan | pullien pullain rare | |
partitive | pullaa | pullia | |
inessive | pullassa | pullissa | |
elative | pullasta | pullista | |
illative | pullaan | pulliin | |
adessive | pullalla | pullilla | |
ablative | pullalta | pullilta | |
allative | pullalle | pullille | |
essive | pullana | pullina | |
translative | pullaksi | pulliksi | |
abessive | pullatta | pullitta | |
instructive | — | pullin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
- aurinkopulla
- dallaspulla
- falafel-pulla
- junttapulla
- kalapulla
- kasvispulla
- kilopulla
- laskiaispulla
- lihapulla
- nisupulla
- pakkopulla
- pikkupulla
- pullahiiri
- pullakahvi
- pullamössö
- pullantuoksu
- pullapelti
- pullapitko
- pullasorsa
- pullasuti
- pullataikina
- rahkapulla
- rusinapulla
- teksaspulla
- tikkupulla
- toscapulla
- täytepulla
- vehnäpulla
- viineripulla
- voipulla
- voisilmäpulla
Descendants
- → English: pulla
Further reading
- “pulla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Latin
Pronunciation
- pulla: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpʊlːʲä]
- pulla: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpulːä]
- pullā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpul.laː/, [ˈpʊlːʲäː]
- pullā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpulːä]
Adjective
pulla
- inflection of pullus:
Adjective
pullā
References
- pulla 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)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese pulha.
Pronunciation
- Syllabification: pu‧lla
Noun
pulla f (plural pullas)
See also
Further reading
- “pulla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology 1
From the interjection pull, used to attract a hen or other bird. Compare the origins of kisse, misse, and pålle.
Noun
pulla c
- (colloquial) a hen
- Synonym: höna
Declension
Declension of pulla | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pulla | pullan | pullor | pullorna |
Genitive | pullas | pullans | pullors | pullornas |
Etymology 2
Perhaps the same word as pula.
Verb
pulla (present pullar, preterite pullade, supine pullat, imperative pulla)
- (vulgar, intransitive and transitive) to finger (oneself, for example during masturbation, or someone else)
- Synonym: fingerpulla
Conjugation
Conjugation of pulla (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | pulla | pullas | ||
Supine | pullat | pullats | ||
Imperative | pulla | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | pullen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | pullar | pullade | pullas | pullades |
Ind. plural1 | pulla | pullade | pullas | pullades |
Subjunctive2 | pulle | pullade | pulles | pullades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | pullande | |||
Past participle | pullad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Derived terms
See also
References
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰel- (blow)
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- English uncountable nouns
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- Finnish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰel- (blow)
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Finnish doublets
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ulːɑ
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- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
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- Finnish koira-type nominals
- fi:Breads
- Latin 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/uʝa
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʝa/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʎa
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʎa/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʃa
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʃa/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʒa
- Rhymes:Spanish/uʒa/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
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- sv:Sex
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