cola

See also Cola, COLA, -cola, and colà

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkəʊ.lə/, X-SAMPA: /"k@U.l@/
• Rhymes: -əʊlə
• (US) IPA: /ˈkoʊlə/, X-SAMPA: /'koU.la/
• Rhymes: -oʊlə

Etymology 1

From a Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known.

Alternative forms

• (the plant or nut): kola

Noun

cola (plural colas)

1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.

Translations

drink

• Catalan: cola (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可樂 (cmn), 可乐 (cmn) (kělè)

• Czech: kola (cs) f
• Danish: cola (da) c
• Dutch: cola (nl) m
• Esperanto: kolao (eo)
• German: Cola (de) f and n
• Greek: κόλα (el) (kóla) f

• Hungarian: kóla (hu)
• Japanese: コーラ (ja) (kōra)
• Macedonian: кола (mk) (kóla) f
• Portuguese: cola (pt) f
• Russian: кола (ru) (kóla) f
• Scottish Gaelic: còc (gd) m
• Spanish: cola (es) f
• Swedish: cola (sv) c
• Turkish: kola (tr)

plant

• Catalan: cola (ca) f
• Czech: kola (cs) f
• Danish: kola (da) c
• Dutch: cola (nl) m
• Greek: κόλα (el) (kóla) f

• Hungarian: kóladió (hu)
• Japanese: コーラ・ナッツ (ja) (kōra nattsu), コーラ (ja) (kōra)
• Russian: кола (ru) (kóla) f
• Spanish: cola (es) f
• Swahili: mkola (sw)

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: kola f
• Bulgarian: кола (kóla) f
• French: coca m
• Hebrew: קולה (qola) f

• Hungarian: kóla
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кола f

  Roman: kola f

• Turkish: kola
• Vietnamese: Côcácôla, côla, cô-la; quả côla, quả cô-la

See also

• Cola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cola (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Cola (plant)
• Kola nut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Kola nut

Etymology 2

See colon

Noun

cola

1. (obsolete) Plural form of colon
   • 2008, Alexandre Allauzen, Review of “Mathematical Linguistics” by Andras Kornai

     In this part, the author presents a prosodic hierarchy describing syllables, moras, feet, cola and a typology for words and stress.

Anagrams

• Acol, Caló, coal, LCAO

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Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition con (“with”) + feminine singular article la (“the”).

Contraction

cola f (masculine col, neuter colo, masculine plural colos, feminine plural coles)

1. with the

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology 1

Noun

cola f (plural coles)

1. glue

Etymology 2

Noun

cola f (plural coles)

1. cola

Etymology 3

Verb

cola

1. Third-person singular present indicative form of colar.
2. Second-person singular imperative form of colar.

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Dutch

Etymology

From English, from the drink Coca Cola.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA: /ˈkoː.laː/
• (Belgium) IPA: /ˈkoː.lɑ/

Noun

cola m (plural cola's, diminutive colaatje)

1. cola (drink)
2. kola (nut)

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Fijian

Verb

cola

1. carry (on the shoulders)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkoː.la/, X-SAMPA: /"ko:.la/

Verb

cola

1. third-person singular present tense of colare
2. second-person singular imperative of colare

Anagrams

• calo, calò
• loca

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Latin

Verb

cōlā

1. first-person singular present active imperative of cōlō

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA: /'kɔ lə/

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

1. glue (sticky adhesive substance)
2. tail
3. (botany) kola (tree or fruit):

Related terms

• cauda (tail)
• coleira (tree)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkola/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Cognate to French queue and Italian coda.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

1. tail
2. line (US); queue (UK)
3. (slightly obscene) ass, the buttocks
4. (Chile, LGBT, sometimes pejorative) gayboy, fagboy, homo

Synonyms

• (tail): rabo
• (queue): fila
• (homo): colihue

Derived terms

• cola de caballo f

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla). Cognate to French colle.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

1. glue

Synonyms

• pegamento

Derived terms

• cola fría

Etymology 3

From a Niger-Congo language

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

1. cola (drink)
2. kola (nut)