# gola
## English
### Noun

gola (plural golas)
* Alternative form of golah

### Anagrams

* Olga, algo-, gaol, algo, Lago, goal, Galo

## Asturian
### Verb

gola
* inflection of golar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan gola, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡo.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɡo.la]

### Noun

gola f (plural goles)
* throat
    Synonym: gorja
* maw (mouth of a beast)
    ficar-se a la gola del llop ― to put oneself in extreme danger
* gorget (a piece of armour)
    Synonym: gorjal
* gluttony
* slough, bayou
* inlet
    Synonym: grau
* (art) ogee

#### Derived terms

* golanegre
* golós
* golut

#### Related terms

* golafre
* goleta

#### References

* “gola” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “gola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “gola” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “gola” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin gula.

### Noun

gola f (plural goles) (ORB, broad)
* snout

### References

* gueule in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* gola in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *goella, from Latin *gulella, from gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɔla/

### Noun

gola f (plural golas)
* throat
    Synonyms: garganta, gorxa

### References

* “gola”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gola”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gola”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gola”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse gola, gula, gol (“a breeze”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔːla/
* Rhymes: -ɔːla

### Noun

gola f (genitive singular golu, nominative plural golur)
* breeze

#### Declension
## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɔl̪ˠə/, /ˈɡɔlˠə/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

gola m (genitive singular gola, nominative plural golaí)
* (anatomy) orifice

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
gola
golaí
vocative
a ghola
a gholaí
genitive
gola
golaí
dative
gola
golaí
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an gola
na golaí
genitive
an ghola
na ngolaí
dative
leis an ngola don ghola
leis na golaí :

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

gola m sg
* genitive singular of gol (“weeping, crying”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 101

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gola”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡo.la/
* Rhymes: -ola
* Hyphenation: gó‧la
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gola f (plural gole)
* throat
* gluttony, greed: one of i sette peccati capitali
* gorge, defile
* stack, flue

#### Related terms

* goletta
* goloso
* ingolato

### Further reading

* gola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* algo-, goal, lago

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin gula.

### Noun

gola f (plural goles)
* (Gherdëina) craving
    Śën ei la gola de na pizza.Now I have a craving for pizza.

## Lindu
### Noun

gola
* sugar

## Lower Sorbian
### Noun

gola f
* Superseded spelling of góla.

## Occitan
### Etymology

Cognate with French gueule. From Latin gula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡola/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gola f (plural golas)
* snout, face
* opening
* (colloquial) mouth

### References

* Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 327.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɔ.la/
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Syllabification: go‧la

### Noun

gola
* genitive/accusative singular of gol

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese gola, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”). Doublet of gula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɔ.lɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
* Hyphenation: go‧la

### Noun

gola f (plural golas)
* collar
* cornice

#### Related terms

* goela

### Further reading

* “gola” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Rohingya
### Noun

gola
* neck

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish gola, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”). Doublet of the borrowing gula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡola/ [ˈɡo.la]
* Rhymes: -ola
* Syllabification: go‧la

### Noun

gola f (plural golas)
* throat
* collar
* (clothing) ruff
* (architecture) cornice
* (geography) canal
* (archaic) gorget (a piece of armor for the throat)

#### Related terms

* goloso

### Further reading

* “gola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Tavringer Romani gola (“shout, scream”). Attested since the late 1960s.

### Verb

gola (present golar, preterite golade, supine golat, imperative gola)
* (slang, sometimes with ner (“down”)) to snitch, to rat out
    Synonym: tjalla
    Jag tror jag vet vem det var som goladeI think I know who ratted us out
    gola ner någonrat someone out

#### Derived terms

* golare (“snitch”)
* golare har inga polare (“snitches get stitches”)
* golbög

### References

* gola in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* gola in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Tswana
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kʊ́da.

### Verb

gola
* (intransitive) to grow, to increase
* (intransitive) to mature