olla

See also: ollá and õlla

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish olla, from Latin ōlla, aulla; akin to Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “pot”), and probably also Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒlə/, /ˈɔjə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒlə

Noun

olla (plural ollas)

1. A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy; 1), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN:

     On top of the counter were three clay jars or ollas. Two of them were empty but the third was covered with the tin lid from a lardpail and the lid was notched to accommodate the handle of an enameled tin dipper.

2. A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
3. (agriculture) An unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation.
   • 2019 March 1, Mary Kathryn Dunston, “Archived copy”, in Farmer's Almanac‎, archived from the original on 26 September 2020:

     An olla (which literally means “pot”) is a round, unglazed terra cotta clay pot with a long neck that you fill with water and bury next to your plants. It irrigates in the ground.

4. (Ancient Rome) A cinerary urn.

Further reading

• olla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• olla (Roman pot) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'allo, -alol, Lola, allo, allo-, lalo

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin ōlla (“cooking pot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoʎa/
• Syllabification: o‧lla
• Rhymes: -oʎa

Noun

olla f (plural ollas)

1. pot

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “olla”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ōlla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔ.ʎa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

olla f (plural olles)

1. cooking-pot
2. stew, casserole
3. pool (in a watercourse)

   Synonym: gorg

Derived terms

• olla de pressió
• olla de vapor
• ollada
• ollal
• ollam
• oller
• plats-i-olles

Further reading

• “olla”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Estonian

Verb

olla

1. Da-infinitive of olema.