# palla
## English

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### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

palla (uncountable)
* A traditional Tuscan ball game played in the street.

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin palla. Doublet of pall.

#### Noun

palla (plural pallae)
* (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
* woman

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan palla, from Latin palea, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Compare Occitan palha, French paille, Italian paglia, Sicilian pagghia, Spanish paja.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpa.ʎə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpa.ʎa]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

palla f (plural palles)
* straw, hay
* drinking straw
    Synonym: canya
* (of gems, metal) flaw
* (of writing) padding

#### Derived terms

* despallar
* empallar
* pallada
* pallejar
* paller
* pallera
* pallissa
* palló
* pallol
* pallola
* pallós
* pallot
* pallús

### References

* “palla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “palla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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
### Alternative forms

* palha (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaʎa̝/

### Noun

palla f (plural pallas)
* (countable) a straw
* (uncountable) straw
** 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, 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, editor, 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 brancasfor a load of hay, [they shall pay] a diñeiro, and by a cartload of bark, two brancas
* (uncountable) chaff
** 1276, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Dominguez, editors, 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 panand 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
* (informal, vulgar) a wank

#### Derived terms

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

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “palla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “palla”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “palla”, 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), “palla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “palla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* “palla”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpalla/
* Rhymes: -la, -a
* Hyphenation: pal‧la

### Noun

palla (plural palla-palla)
* (Catholicism) Alternative spelling of pala

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpal.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -alla
* Hyphenation: pàl‧la

### Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin balla, palla, bala, from Frankish *ballu, from Proto-Germanic *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Alternatively, via Lombardic *palla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô, from the same ultimate origin. Compare Sicilian baḍḍa.

#### Noun

palla f (plural palle)
* (sports) ball (object used for playing games)
* ball (solid or hollow sphere)
* (historical, firearms) bullet, shot
    Hypernym: proiettile
* (usually in the plural, vulgar) testicles
    Synonyms: (vulgar) coglione, testicolo
* (informal, figurative) something dull or boring
    Che palle!What a drag!
* (colloquial) lie
    Synonym: bugia
* (heraldry) circle-shaped charge

##### Derived terms

* pallone

##### Related terms

* impallare
* palla da golf
* pallabase
* pallacanestro
* pallamano
* pallanuoto
* pallata
* pallavolo
* palleggiare
* pallina
* palloncino
* pallone
* pallottola
* rimpallare

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin palla, of uncertain origin.

#### Noun

palla f (plural palle)
* (historical, Ancient Rome) palla (cloth worn by ladies)

##### Related terms

* pallio

### Etymology 3

Perhaps an extension in sense of the above lemma.

#### Noun

palla f (plural palle)
* (Catholicism) a cloth used to cover a chalice during services

### Further reading

* palla$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* palla$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* palla$^3$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *palasā, from Proto-Indo-European *pĺ̥h₂seh₂, cognate to Hittite 𒉺𒆷𒄴𒊭𒀸 (pa-la-aḫ-ša-aš, “female garment”). This etymology was originally proposed by Stefan Höfler and is accepted as convincing by Blanca María Prósper.
No etymology is decided on by De Vaan, who floats possibilities like 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
* A rectangular piece of cloth worn by ladies in Ancient Rome and fastened with brooches.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* pallium

#### Descendants

* → English: palla (learned)
* → Italian: palla (learned)
** → Indonesian: palla
** → Maltese: palla
* → Romanian: pală (learned)
* → Proto-Brythonic: *pall
** Middle Welsh: pall
*** Welsh: pall

#### 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

* ↑ Höfler, Stefan (2017) “Observations on the palma rule”, in Pallas, volume 103, pages 15-23
* ↑ Prósper, Blanca María (2021) “Mars Veneticus and the «palma rule»”, in Francesca Chiusaroli, editor, Miscellanea di studi in onore di Diego Poli [Miscellany of Studies in Honor of Diego Poli], volume 2, Rome: Il Calamo, →ISBN, page 1259
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
* ↑ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Italian palla, from Latin palla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpal.la/

### Noun

palla f (plural palel)
* (Christianity) pallium

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* palle (e-infinitive)

### Etymology

Related to Traveller Norwegian palla and Swedish palla, both with the same meaning.

### Verb

palla (present tense pallar, past tense palla, past participle palla, passive infinitive pallast, present participle pallande, imperative palla/pall)
* (slang) to bother to; to have the energy to, to feel up to
    Eg pallar tji gjøra det i dag for faenI don't feel up to do it today for fuck's sake

#### Synonyms

* gidde
* orke

## Quechua
### Noun

palla
* lady, respected woman
* female dancer

#### Declension
## Sardinian
### Etymology

From Latin palea.

### Noun

palla f
* (Campidanese) straw

## Sicilian
### Alternative forms

* padda

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpalːa/
* Hyphenation: pal‧la

### Noun

palla f (plural palli)
* ball

## Spanish
### Verb

palla
* inflection of pallar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

Derived from Swedish criminal cant pall (“apple”). Attested since 1898.

#### Verb

palla (present pallar, preterite pallade, supine pallat, imperative palla)
* (colloquial) To scrump; to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
    Synonyms: stjäla (“steal”), knycka (“nick”)
    Ska vi gå och palla från grannen?Shall we go scrumping from the neighbor?

### Etymology 2

Affix of pall +‎ -ar, from stå pall (“stand firm”). Borrowed from Dutch pal staan, from Low German pall staan.
Interjection sense possibly an ellipsis of the negative pallar inte ("do not have energy/stamina/will").

#### Verb

palla (present pallar, preterite pallade, supine pallat, imperative palla)
* (colloquial) To have enough strength, will, or stamina for something. [since 1912]
    Synonyms: (dialectal) gitta, idas, orka, (archaic) tya
    Pallar du en runda till?Do you have strength/energy for another round?

##### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

##### Derived terms

* palla tji

#### Interjection

palla
* (colloquial, can be seen as rude) to not have enough strength, will or stamina; to not be bothered to
    – Ska vi gå på bio? – Palla!– Shall we go and watch a movie? – I don't have enough energy! / – I can't be bothered to!

### References

* palla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* palla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* pall in Svensk ordbok (SO)