pulla
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Finnish pulla, from Swedish bulle. Doublet of bowl and boule.
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swedish bulle, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ. Doublet of pullo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- → English: pulla
Further reading
[edit]- “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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- 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
[edit]pulla
- inflection of pullus:
Adjective
[edit]pullā
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese pulha.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Syllabification: pu‧lla
Noun
[edit]pulla f (plural pullas)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pulla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From the interjection pull, used to attract a hen or other bird. Compare the origins of kisse, misse, and pålle.
Noun
[edit]pulla c
- (colloquial) a hen
- Synonym: höna
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]Perhaps the same word as pula.
Verb
[edit]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
[edit]Conjugation of pulla (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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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
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰel- (blow)
- English terms borrowed from Finnish
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- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable 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
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ulːɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ulːɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish koira-type nominals
- fi:Breads
- Latin 2-syllable words
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- Latin non-lemma forms
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Portuguese
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- Spanish 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
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
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- sv:Sex
- sv:Masturbation