hallulla

Spanish

Alternative forms

• hallullo, hallula, hallulo

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic حَلُّون (ḥallūn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aˈʝuʝa/ [aˈʝu.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /aˈʝuʝa/ [aˈʝu.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /aˈʎuʎa/ [aˈʎu.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /aˈʃuʃa/ [aˈʃu.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /aˈʒuʒa/ [aˈʒu.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

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• Rhymes: -uʝa

• Rhymes: -uʝa (most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -uʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -uʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: ha‧llu‧lla

Noun

hallulla f (plural hallullas)

1. (Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador) a type of flatbread common in Chile and Bolivia

   Coordinate term: marraqueta

Derived terms

• hallullita

Further reading

• “hallulla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 365
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 365