pulla
See also: pull a
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish pulla, from Swedish bulle. Doublet of bowl and boule.
Noun
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:
- 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.
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Anagrams
- Paull, all-up, pallu
Finnish
Varieties of pulla.
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish bulle, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ. Doublet of pullo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpulːɑ/, [ˈpulːɑ]
- Rhymes: -ulːɑ
- Syllabification(key): pul‧la
Noun
pulla
- cardamom bread, also pulla (mildly sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency)
- ball; as headword in names of some foodstuffs, e.g lihapulla (“meatball”), falafel-pulla (“falafel ball”)
Declension
| Inflection of pulla (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 pullainrare | |
| 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 | |
| instructive | — | pullin | |
| abessive | pullatta | pullitta | |
| comitative | — | pullineen | |
| Possessive forms of pulla (type koira) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | pullani | pullamme |
| 2nd person | pullasi | pullanne |
| 3rd person | pullansa | |
Synonyms
- (cardamom bread): nisu, vehnänen
- (ball): pyörykkä
Derived terms
- falafel-pulla
- kalapulla
- lihapulla
- nisupulla
- pullapitko
- pullataikina
- vehnäpulla
- viineripulla
Descendants
- → English: pulla
Latin
Pronunciation
- pulla: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpʊlːʲä]
- pulla: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpulːä]
- pullā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.laː/, [ˈpʊlːʲäː]
- pullā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpulːä]
Adjective
pulla
- inflection of pullus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective
pullā
- ablative feminine singular of pullus
References
- 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
Etymology
From Portuguese pulha.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈpuʝa/ [ˈpu.ʝa]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈpuʎa/ [ˈpu.ʎa]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈpuʃa/ [ˈpu.ʃa]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈpuʒa/ [ˈpu.ʒa]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -uʝa
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -uʎa
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -uʃa
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -uʒa
- Syllabification: pu‧lla
Noun
pulla f (plural pullas)
- an obscenity
- a gibe; a burn; a dig
See also
- puya
Further reading
- “pulla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
Perhaps the same word as pula.
Verb
pulla (present pullar, preterite pullade, supine pullat, imperative pulla)
- (vulgar, intransitive and transitive) to finger (oneself, e.g. as part of masturbation, or someone else)
- Synonyms: (slang, vulgar) fingerpulla, (slang, vulgar) klittra, onanera, masturbera
Conjugation
Conjugation of pulla (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||||
Further reading
- pulla in Svensk ordbok.