cola

See also: Cola, COLA, colá, colà, and -cola

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.lə/
• Rhymes: -əʊlə
• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊlə/
• 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, and popularized the spelling with c instead of k.

Alternative forms

• (the plant or nut): kola

Noun

cola (countable and uncountable, 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

plant or nut — see kola

drink

• Arabic: كُولَا f (kūlā)

  Egyptian Arabic: كولا f (kola)

  North Levantine Arabic: كولا f (kōla)

  South Levantine Arabic: كولا f (kōla)

• Armenian: կոլա (hy) (kola)
• Belarusian: ко́ла f (kóla)
• Bulgarian: ко́ла (bg) f (kóla)
• Catalan: cola (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 可樂／可乐 (ho² lok⁶), 可乐 (ho² lok⁶)

  Hakka: 可樂／可乐, 可乐 (khó-là)

  Mandarin: 可樂／可乐 (zh) (kělè), 可乐 (zh) (kělè)

• Czech: kola (cs) f
• Danish: cola (da) c
• Dutch: cola (nl) m
• Esperanto: kolao
• Faroese: kola f
• Finnish: kolajuoma (fi)
• French: coca (fr) m
• Georgian: კოლა (ḳola)
• German: Cola (de) f or n
• Greek: κόλα (el) f (kóla)
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• Hebrew: קוֹלָה (he) f (qola)
• Hindi: कोला (hi) m (kolā)
• Hungarian: kóla (hu)
• Japanese: コーラ (ja) (kōra)
• Korean: 콜라 (ko) (kolla)
• Macedonian: ко́ла f (kóla)
• Mongolian: кола (mn) (kola)
• Persian: کولا (fa) (kola)
• Portuguese: cola (pt) f
• Romanian: cola (ro) f
• Russian: ко́ла (ru) f (kóla)
• Scottish Gaelic: còc m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кола f

  Roman: kola (sh) f

• Slovak: kola f
• Spanish: cola (es) f
• Swedish: cola (sv) c, kola (sv) c
• Thai: โคล่า (koo-lâa)
• Turkish: kola (tr)
• Ukrainian: ко́ла f (kóla)

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} coca (fr) m
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} kola (tr)
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• (deprecated template usage) Vietnamese: Côcácôla, côla, cô-la; quả côla, quả cô-la

See also

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Etymology 2

See colon.

Noun

cola

1. (obsolete) plural 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.

Etymology 3

Noun

cola (plural colas)

1. A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.

Anagrams

• ALCO, Acol, Calo, Caló, Coal., LCAO, LOCA, alco, alco-, coal, loca

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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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈko.la]

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare French colle, Spanish and Portuguese cola, Italian colla.

Noun

cola f (plural coles)

1. glue

Etymology 2

Noun

cola f (plural coles)

1. cola

Etymology 3

Verb

cola

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Dutch

Etymology

From English cola, from the drink Coca Cola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.laː/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.lɑ/

• Audio:

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Noun

cola m (plural cola's, diminutive colaatje n)

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

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Fijian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈðola/

Verb

cola

1. carry (on the shoulders)

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Spanish cola, French colle, Italian colla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔla̝/

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

1. glue
   • 1433, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 493:

     yten hordenamos e por ben temos que ningún, nen alguos oficiaas que labrar contas ou fezer labrar ou vender de azabache, que non seja ousado de soldar, nen juntar peça nenhua, conben a saver, ymagen de santiago, nen crucifixo, nen conchas, nen contas, nen sortellas, nen outra pesa nenhua que seja quebrada con betume, nen con cola, nen con solda, nen quon outra cousa

     item, we order and pleases us that no one, neither some officials who carve beans or order to carve or sell jet, should dare to solder not joint any piece, that is: neither image of Saint James, nor crucifix, nor shells, nor beans, nor rings, nor any other broken thing, with bitumen, nor glue, nor solder, nor with any other thing

2. adhesive

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔla̝/

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

1. tail
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:

     desla çintura arriba cõmo fegura de omẽ, et dende ajuso cõmo de peyxe cõ escamas et sua cola

     from the waist upwards as the figure of a man, and from them down as that of a fish, with scales and its tail

   Synonym: rabo

2. queue

   Synonym: fila

Etymology 3

Ultimately from a Niger-Congo language, or from Sudanese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔla̝/

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

1. (botany) kola

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cola”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cola”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.la/

Verb

cola

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

Anagrams

• calo, calò
• loca

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cōlā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cōlō

References

• cola 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)

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀘𑁄𑀮 (Brahmi script)
• चोल (Devanagari script)
• চোল (Bengali script)
• චොල (Sinhalese script)
• စောလ or ၸေႃလ (Burmese script)
• โจล or โจละ (Thai script)
• ᨧᩮᩣᩃ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂຈລ or ໂຈລະ (Lao script)
• ចោល (Khmer script)
• 𑄌𑄮𑄣 (Chakma script)

Noun

cola m

1. cloth

References

• Maung Tin (1920), The Student's Pali-English Dictionary, Rangoon: British Burma Press.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.lɐ/
• Hyphenation: co‧la

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Spanish cola, French colle, Italian colla.

Noun

cola f (plural s)

1. glue, paste (sticky adhesive substance)
2. adhesive
3. (Brazil, slang) cheat sheet, a copy of content used to help to complete a school or university test, often illegally

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Doublet of cauda, a borrowing.

Noun

cola f (plural s)

1. (Brazil, slang) track (of someone or something to be followed)
2. (Brazil, slang) trail (of someone or something to be followed)
3. tail (dated)

Synonyms

• (track, trail): pista, rastro
• (tail): rabo, cauda

Related terms

• cauda

Etymology 3

From a Niger-Congo language, or from Sudanese.

Noun

cola f (plural s)

1. (botany) kola (tree or fruit):

Related terms

• coleira

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Spanish

Cola de un león (a lion's tail).

Cola de avión (aircraft tail).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkola/ [ˈko.la]
• Hyphenation: co‧la

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, or from its diminutive caudula. Cognate to French queue and Italian coda.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

1. (anatomy) tail

   Synonym: rabo

2. (aviation) empennage, aircraft tail
3. (clothing) train (long back section of a gown)
4. (astronomy) coma (a comet's tail)

   Synonym: coma

5. line (US); queue (UK)

   Synonym: fila

6. (computing, informatics) queue
7. (slightly vulgar) ass, the buttocks
8. (Chile, LGBT, sometimes pejorative) gayboy, homo

   Synonym: colihue

Derived terms

• cola de caballo
• colero
• coleta
• coliblanco
• colista
• hacer cola

 

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla). Cognate to Portuguese cola, Italian colla, French colle.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

1. (adhesive) glue (natural)

   Synonym: pegamento (synthetic)

Usage notes

This kind of glue cola refers to the the natural paste kind made from horse hooves or other animal body parts only, not the synthetic kind.

Derived terms

• cola fría

Etymology 3

From a Niger-Congo language.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

1. (drink) Short for bebida de cola (“cola”).
2. (nut) kola
3. (tree) kola tree

Derived terms

• (nut): bebida de cola
• (nut): sabor cola

Anagrams

• calo
• caló
• laco
• loca
• ocal

Further reading

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

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Xhosa

Etymology

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

Verb

-cola^?

1. (transitive) to grind

Inflection

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