galla

galla (plural gallas)

1. Alternative form of gallu (“Mesopotamian demon”).

• gala

From Middle High German galle, from Old High German galla, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ. Cognate with German Galle, English gall.

galla f (Sette Comuni)

1. bile
2. gall (impudence)

   Ze hat an gròoses hèertze bàdar an grössora galla.

   He has a big heart but a bigger gall.

• “galla” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

• gallština (dated)

Borrowed from German Galla.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡala]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: ga‧l‧la

galla f (indeclinable)

1. (dated) Oromo (language)

   Synonym: oromština

• “galla”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

From German Galla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑlːɑ/, [ˈɡɑ̝lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): gal‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): gal‧la

galla (dated)

1. Oromo (a language of Ethiopia)

• oromo

• galha (reintegrationist)

Probably from Vulgar Latin *gallea, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʎa̝/

galla f (plural gallas)

1. twig

   Synonym: guizo

2. branch

   Synonym: póla

3. forked branch
4. prong
5. (also in the plural) fork
6. barb (of a hook)
7. gall (tumorous growt)

   Synonyms: bugallo, carrabouxo, coco

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “galla”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “galla”, 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), “galla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “galla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

galla

1. inflection of gallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.la/
• Rhymes: -alla
• Hyphenation: gàl‧la

From Latin galla.

galla f (plural galle)

1. gall
2. acorn
3. round pill
4. pimple (caused by sunburn)
5. hairgrip

galla

1. feminine singular of gallo

• a galla

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

galla

1. inflection of gallare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

There are various hypotheses:

• Perhaps from or influenced by Germanic, if the sense is "poison-sore"; see Proto-Germanic *gallǭ (English gall (“bile”)) or *gallô (“sore, swelling, lesion”) (English gall (“sore”)).
• From Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“form into a ball; ball”). Cognate with Latin glaeba, glomus and Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡal.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡal.la]

galla f (genitive gallae); first declension

1. an oak apple, gall-nut
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 4.267:

     proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem […]

     It is good too to blend a taste of pounded oak apples […]

2. a harsh, sour kind of wine

First-declension noun.

• gallula
• *galleus (“oaken”)

• Catalan: gala, agalla
• → English: gall
• French: galle
• Italian: galla
• Portuguese: galha, galho
• → Russian: галл (gall)
• Spanish: galla, gajo

• “galla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “galla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "galla", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “galla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “galla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “galla”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From Proto-West Germanic *gallā, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.

galla f

1. gall, bile

• Middle Dutch: galle
  • Dutch: gal
    • Afrikaans: gal
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: gali
    • Negerhollands: gal
    • → Papiamentu: hal, gal
  • Limburgish: gal

• “galla (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Celtic *gasliyā, from *gas, of uncertain ultimate origin. Pott has adduced Spanish galgo (“greyhound”), which, however, is founded on canis Gallicus. See gasradh for root.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɫ̪ə/

galla f (genitive singular galla, plural gallachan)

1. bitch

• Often used as a swear word, especially in compounds.

• mac na galla
• nighean na galla
• thalla gu taigh na galla

• Syllabification: ga‧lla

galla f (plural gallas)

1. (Chile, colloquial) female equivalent of gallo, broad (US), chick, gal (woman)

   Synonym: tipa

• “galla”, 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

From Old Swedish galle, from Old Norse gall, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.

galla c (uncountable)

1. bile

• gallblåsa
• gallfeber
• gallsten
• gallskrik

• “galla”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “galla”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “galla”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH

• gall (literary, second-person singular imperative)
• gallaf (first-person singular present/future)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɬa/

galla

1. inflection of gallu:
   1. first-person singular present/future colloquial
   2. (rare) second-person singular imperative