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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian palla (“ball”). Doublet of ball.

Noun

palla (uncountable)

1. A traditional Tuscan ball game played in the street.

Etymology 2

From Latin. pall (“a cloak”).

Noun

palla (plural pallae)

1. (historical) A rectangular piece of cloth worn by ladies in Ancient Rome and fastened with brooches.

Further reading

• Palla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Aymara

Noun

palla

1. woman

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan palha), from Latin palea (compare French paille, Spanish paja), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?pa.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pa.?a/

Noun

palla f (plural palles)

1. straw, hay

Derived terms

• paller
• pallós

Further reading

• “palla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “palla” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “palla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “palla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese palla (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palea. Cognate with Portuguese palha and Spanish paja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?a?/

Noun

palla f (plural pallas)

1. (countable) a straw
2. (uncountable) straw
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:

     Jtem. deue o potro comer feo, palla, herua, orio, auea, espelqa, que quer dizer melga, et as qousas semellauelles a esto, que naturalmente som para seu comer.

     Item. The foal must eat hay, straw, grass, barley, oat, spelt —that is, melga— and things that are similar to these, which are naturally for them to eat

   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 418:

     e da cárrega de palla, un diñeiro e do carro da casqa, duas brancas

     for a load of hay, [they shall pay] a diñeiro, and by a cartload of bark, two brancas

3. (uncountable) chaff
   • 1276, M. Lucas Álvarez; P. Lucas Dominguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 375:

     et este pan deue a seer qual o Deus der no logar et seer linpo de palla et de poo, d'eruellada et de mosceyra, et deue a seer ben seco et ben linpo et bõõ pan

     and this grain must be that that God gives at that place, and it must be clean of chaff and dust, of vetch and fodder, and it must be well dry and well clean and good grain

4. (familiar, vulgar) a wank

Derived terms

• espallar
• palla perra
• palleiro
• palloza
• un palleiro non se fai sen palla

References

• “palla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “palla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “palla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “palla” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “palla” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

Uncertain:

• From Medieval Latin balla, palla, bala, from Frankish *ball, from Proto-Germanic *balluz.
• From Lombardic *palla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô, from Proto-Indo-European *b?oln- (“bubble”), from *b?el- (“to blow, swell, inflate”).
• Borrowed from Provençal or Occitan pelota, from Latin pila (“ball”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pal.la/

Noun

palla f (plural palle)

1. ball
2. bullet, shot
3. (in the plural) testicles
4. (by extension) an arduous and/or boring undertaking or event.

Related terms

Derived terms

• pallone

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”) (akin to pellis (“hide, pelt”), or possibly a substrate loan.

Noun

palla f (genitive pallae); first declension

1. A rectangular piece of cloth worn by ladies in Ancient Rome and fastened with brooches.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• pallium

Descendants

• Romanian: pal?

Further reading

• palla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palla in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• palla in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palla in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

References

Quechua

Noun

palla

1. lady, respected woman
2. female dancer

Declension

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin palea.

Noun

palla f

1. (Campidanese) straw

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• padda

Etymology

From Italian palla (“ball”), see above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pal?a/
• Hyphenation: pal?la

Noun

palla f (plural palli)

1. ball

Spanish

Verb

palla

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pallar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pallar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pallar.

Swedish

Verb

palla (present pallar, preterite pallade, supine pallat, imperative palla)

1. (colloquial, only about fruit) steal, especially from trees

2. (colloquial) to not have enough strength, will or stamina; to not be bothered to

Conjugation

Interjection

palla

1. (colloquial, can be seen as rude) to not have enough strength, will or stamina; to not be bothered to

Synonyms

• gitta (dialectal)
• idas
• orka
• tya (archaic)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pali/
• Rhymes: -æli

Etymology 1

From pal +? -y.

Adjective

pally (comparative pallier or more pally, superlative palliest or most pally)

1. Like a pal; friendly.
   • 1929, Basil Woon, From Deauville to Monte Carlo, page 157,

     The O?Briens are the palliest of pals with the Prince of Wales and when HRH is in Biarritz he and Jay are inseparable.

   • 1942, Seán O'Faoláin, Peadar O'Donnell, The Bell, Volume 5, page 157,

     Words are the friendliest and palliest things I know.

   • 1987, Alan Sillitoe, Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader, page 30,

     […] he was a champion boozer and the palliest bloke in the pub.

   • 2006, Vidar Helgesen, Erik Solheim, The Straight Talkers, Harriet Martin (editor), Kofi Atta Annan (foreword), Kings of Peace, Pawns of War: The Untold Story of Peace-Making, page 112,

     And with each round the two negotiating teams got more and more pally. ‘By the sixth round we were having Jacuzzis together!’

   • 2010, Donald Munro, Diaries of a Stretcher-Bearer 1916-1918, page 100,

     When there were Australian officers everyone was more pally and sociable which made it easier for the lady in charge to entertain the party.

   • 2011, David Rowley, Erections in the Far East, page 19,

     The chap I?m most pally with is Fright who is nearly sixty now but still climbs like a youngster.

Noun

pally (plural pallies)

1. (US) An affectionate term of address.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 164:

     ‘Sit here, pally.’ He pushed me down.

   • 1951, Cue: The Weekly Magazine of New York Life, page M-77,

     Well, a lot of water has flown under the bridges since then, pally, and while I have been laying off lately, I?m still the same old Joey, which is more than I can say for that O?Hara creep.

   • 1968, Alex La Guma, Tattoo Marks and Nails, A Walk in the Night: And Other Stories, page 95,

     Ahmed the Turk grinned. “You call this hot, chommy? Pally, we used to take slices off the heat, put them on our biscuits and make toast.”

   • 1993, Roger Kahn, The Era: 1947-1957, When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World, page 342,

     As the Giants moved West, most accpted Horace Stoneham?s apologia: “I can?t stay where I am, pally. If I don?t move the team I go bankrupt. Except for Chub [Feeney], all my relatives would starve.”

2. (US, Australia) A slightly derogatory and insulting term of address.

   What do you think you are doing, pally?

Etymology 2

Noun

pally (plural pallies)

1. (slang, fantasy role-playing games) A paladin.