English

Noun

palla ‎(uncountable)

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

Etymology 2

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.

Aymara

Noun

palla

1. woman

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin palea.

Noun

palla f ‎(plural palles)

1. straw

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from Germanic.

Noun

palla f ‎(plural palle)

1. ball
2. bullet, shot
3. testicle, and, by extension, an arduous and/or boring undertaking or event.

   Che palla!‎

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Related terms

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‎(“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”). See also Latin pellis.

Noun

palla f ‎(genitive pallae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

• pallium

References

• 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

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): /ˈpalːa/
• 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.