# cola
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkəʊ.lə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkoʊlə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊlə

### Etymology 1

From a Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known, and popularized the spelling with c instead of k.

#### Alternative forms

* (the plant or nut): kola

#### Noun

cola (countable and uncountable, plural colas)
* The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
* A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.

##### Derived terms

* champagne cola
* cola chicken
* colaholic
* noncola
* piscola

##### Descendants

* → Korean: 콜라 (kolla)

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### See also

* Cola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Cola (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Kola nut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

See colon.

#### Noun

cola
* (dated) plural of colon
** 2008, Alexandre Allauzen, Review of “Mathematical Linguistics” by Andras Kornai‎:In this part, the author presents a prosodic hierarchy describing syllables, moras, feet, cola and a typology for words and stress.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

cola (plural colas)
* A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.

### Anagrams

* ALCO, Acol, Calo, Caló, Coal., LCAO, LOAC, LOCA, alco, alco-, coal, loca

## Adai
### Noun

cola
* yes.

## Asturian
### Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition con (“with”) + feminine singular article la (“the”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkola/ [ˈko.la]

### Contraction

cola f (masculine col, neuter colo, masculine plural colos, feminine plural coles)
* with the

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare French colle, Portuguese and Spanish cola, Italian colla.

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

cola f (plural coles)
* glue

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cola, in turn from an undetermined Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola.

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

cola f (plural coles)
* cola

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

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

#### Verb

cola
* inflection of colar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cola, from the fizzy drink Coca Cola; the second part was named after the kola nuts that are used as an ingredient.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkoː.laː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: co‧la
* Rhymes: -oːlaː

### Noun

cola m (plural cola's, diminutive colaatje n)
* cola (drink)
* Superseded spelling of kola.

#### Derived terms

* bacardi cola, baco
* rum cola

## Fijian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈðola/

### Verb

cola
* carry (on the shoulders)

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkolɑ/, [ˈko̞lɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -olɑ
* Hyphenation: co‧la

### Noun

cola
* Alternative form of kola (“cola”)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of cola (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
colani
colani
accusative
nom.
colani
colani
gen.
colani
genitive
colani
colieni colaini $^{rare}$
partitive
colaani
coliani
inessive
colassani
colissani
elative
colastani
colistani
illative
colaani
coliini
adessive
colallani
colillani
ablative
colaltani
coliltani
allative
colalleni
colilleni
essive
colanani
colinani
translative
colakseni
colikseni
abessive
colattani
colittani
instructive
comitative
—colineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
colasi
colasi
accusative
nom.
colasi
colasi
gen.
colasi
genitive
colasi
coliesi colaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
colaasi
coliasi
inessive
colassasi
colissasi
elative
colastasi
colistasi
illative
colaasi
coliisi
adessive
colallasi
colillasi
ablative
colaltasi
coliltasi
allative
colallesi
colillesi
essive
colanasi
colinasi
translative
colaksesi
coliksesi
abessive
colattasi
colittasi
instructive
comitative
—colinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
colamme
colamme
accusative
nom.
colamme
colamme
gen.
colamme
genitive
colamme
coliemme colaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
colaamme
coliamme
inessive
colassamme
colissamme
elative
colastamme
colistamme
illative
colaamme
coliimme
adessive
colallamme
colillamme
ablative
colaltamme
coliltamme
allative
colallemme
colillemme
essive
colanamme
colinamme
translative
colaksemme
coliksemme
abessive
colattamme
colittamme
instructive
comitative
—colinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
colanne
colanne
accusative
nom.
colanne
colanne
gen.
colanne
genitive
colanne
colienne colainne $^{rare}$
partitive
colaanne
colianne
inessive
colassanne
colissanne
elative
colastanne
colistanne
illative
colaanne
coliinne
adessive
colallanne
colillanne
ablative
colaltanne
coliltanne
allative
colallenne
colillenne
essive
colananne
colinanne
translative
colaksenne
coliksenne
abessive
colattanne
colittanne
instructive
comitative
—colinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
colansa
colansa
accusative
nom.
colansa
colansa
gen.
colansa
genitive
colansa
coliensa colainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
colaansa
coliaan coliansa
inessive
colassaan colassansa
colissaan colissansa
elative
colastaan colastansa
colistaan colistansa
illative
colaansa
coliinsa
adessive
colallaan colallansa
colillaan colillansa
ablative
colaltaan colaltansa
coliltaan coliltansa
allative
colalleen colallensa
colilleen colillensa
essive
colanaan colanansa
colinaan colinansa
translative
colakseen colaksensa
colikseen coliksensa
abessive
colattaan colattansa
colittaan colittansa
instructive
comitative
—colineen colinensa :

#### Derived terms

* colajuoma

### Further reading

* “cola”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cola m (plural colas)
* cola (drink)

### Further reading

* “cola”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Spanish cola, French colle, Italian colla.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔla̝/

#### Noun

cola f (plural colas)
* glue
** 1433, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 493:yten hordenamos e por ben temos que ningún, nen alguos oficiaas que labrar contas ou fezer labrar ou vender de azabache, que non seja ousado de soldar, nen juntar peça nenhua, conben a saver, ymagen de santiago, nen crucifixo, nen conchas, nen contas, nen sortellas, nen outra pesa nenhua que seja quebrada con betume, nen con cola, nen con solda, nen quon outra cousaitem, we order and pleases us that no one, neither some officials who carve beans or order to carve or sell jet, should dare to solder not joint any piece, that is: neither image of Saint James, nor crucifix, nor shells, nor beans, nor rings, nor any other broken thing, with bitumen, nor glue, nor solder, nor with any other thing
* adhesive

### Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Doublet of cúa.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔla̝/

#### Noun

cola f (plural colas)
* tail
    Synonym: rabo
** c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:desla çintura arriba cõmo fegura de omẽ, et dende ajuso cõmo de peyxe cõ escamas et sua colafrom the waist upwards as the figure of a man, and from them down as that of a fish, with scales and its tail
* train (elongated back portion of a dress)
** c. 1885, Jenaro Mariñas, A Moda:Pois señor, eu paso pola calle e vou de présa: tripo unha cola dunha señorita; eu caio, ela cai; o pai que vai con ela, dáme de paus co bastón; un meu compañeiro, que tampouco pode ver esas modas, sai na miña defensa; eu levántome e axúdolle; a nena dá gritos; os serenos acoden; nós non lle facemos caso; a xente vén correndo a ve-lo que pasa, repítese entre ela o que a min xa me pasou; caien uns enriba doutros, e hai confusión, e aies, e berros, e paresce que toda aquela calle está chea de demos que andan arrincando as lousas pra irse pró inferno. Resultado: un escadrón de caballería sai a despexar a calle, e nos vamos direitos á prevención."Well, then I'm walking down the street in a hurry: I trip on a young lady's train; I fall, she falls; her father, which is by her side, strikes me some blows with his canes; a companion of mine, who also can't stand these fashions, comes to defend me; I stand up and help him; the girl shouts; the guards come; we don't acknowledge them; people come at the run to see what's going on, and it happens to them what has happened to me; they fall ones on top of the others, and there is confusion and laments and shouts, and it seems that the street is full with demons who are pulling out the flagstones to get to hell. Result: a cavalry squadron comes to clear the street, and we go direct to jail."
* queue
    Synonym: fila

### Etymology 3

Ultimately from a Niger-Congo language, or from Sudanese.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔla̝/

#### Noun

cola f (plural colas)
* (botany) kola

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cola”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cola”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cola”, 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), “cola”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cola”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈko.la/
* Rhymes: -ola
* Hyphenation: có‧la

### Verb

cola
* inflection of colare:
** third-person singular present
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* calo, calo-, calò, laco, loca

## Latin
### Verb

cōlā
* second-person singular present active imperative of cōlō

### References

* cola 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)

## Old English
### Noun

cola
* genitive plural of col

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀘𑁄𑀮 (Brahmi script)
* चोल (Devanagari script)
* চোল (Bengali script)
* චොල (Sinhalese script)
* စောလ or ၸေႃလ (Burmese script)
* โจล or โจละ (Thai script)
* ᨧᩮᩣᩃ (Tai Tham script)
* ໂຈລ or ໂຈລະ (Lao script)
* ចោល (Khmer script)
* 𑄌𑄮𑄣 (Chakma script)

### Noun

cola m
* cloth

#### Declension
### References

* Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “cola”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead
* Maung Tin (1920), The Student's Pali-English Dictionary, Rangoon: British Burma Press.

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* kola

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cola, from a Niger-Congo language. Genericized trademark.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Syllabification: co‧la
* Homophone: kola

### Noun

cola f
* cola (any kind of soft drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel, and carbonated water)
* Coca-Cola drink
    Synonym: coca-cola

#### Declension
### Further reading

* cola in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ.lɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
* Hyphenation: co‧la

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Spanish cola, French colle, Italian colla.

#### Noun

cola f (plural colas)
* glue, paste (sticky adhesive substance)
* adhesive

### Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Doublet of cauda, a borrowing.

#### Noun

cola f (plural colas)
* (dated or dialectal) tail
    Synonyms: cauda, (informal) rabo
* track, trail (of someone or something to be followed)
    Synonym: rasto
    A polícia está na cola dele. ― The police is on his tail.
* (Brazil, slang) cheat sheet, a copy of content used to help to complete a school or university test, often illegally
    Synonym: (Portugal) cábula

### Etymology 3

From a Niger-Congo language, or from Sudanese.

#### Noun

cola f (plural colas)
* (botany) kola (tree or fruit):

##### Related terms

* coleira

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cola
* inflection of colar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cola.

### Noun

cola m (plural cola)
* cola (drink)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkola/ [ˈko.la]
* Rhymes: -ola
* Syllabification: co‧la

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, or from its diminutive caudula. Cognate to French queue and Italian coda.

#### Noun

cola f (plural colas)
* (anatomy) tail
    Synonym: rabo
* line (US), queue (UK)
    Synonym: fila
* (aviation) empennage, aircraft tail
* (clothing) train (long back section of a gown)
* (astronomy) coma (a comet's tail)
    Synonym: coma
* (computing, informatics) queue
* (slightly vulgar) ass, the buttocks
* (slightly vulgar) the penis
* (Chile, LGBTQ, sometimes pejorative) gayboy, homo
    Synonym: colihue

##### Derived terms

* a la cola
* bata de cola
* cola de alacrán
* cola de caballo
* cola de gallo
* cola de golondrina
* cola de lagarto
* cola de león
* cola de milano
* cola de paja
* cola de pato
* cola de perro
* cola de pescado
* cola de rata
* cola de ratón
* cola de zorra
* colero
* coleta
* coliblanco
* colilla
* colista
* con la cola entre las patas
* furgón de cola
* hacer cola
* pescadilla que se muerde la cola
* piano de cola
* piano de media cola
* vagón de cola

##### Related terms

* caudal

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla). Cognate to Portuguese cola, Italian colla, French colle.

#### Noun

cola f (plural colas)
* (adhesive) glue (natural)
    Synonyms: pegamento (synthetic), engrudo

##### Usage notes

* This kind of glue cola refers to the natural paste kind made from horse hooves or other animal body parts only, not the synthetic kind.

##### Derived terms

* cola de boca
* cola de retal
* cola fría
* no pegar ni con cola

### Etymology 3

From a Niger-Congo language.

#### Noun

cola f (plural colas)
* (drink) Ellipsis of bebida de cola (“cola”).
* (nut) kola
* (tree) kola tree

##### Derived terms

* bebida de cola
* nuez de cola
* sabor cola

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cola
* inflection of colar (“to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)”):
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cola”, 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
* “cola”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

### Anagrams

* calo
* caló
* laco
* loca
* ocal

## Vietnamese
### Noun

cola
* cola (drink)

## Xhosa
### Etymology

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

### Verb

-cola$^?$
* (transitive) to grind

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.