zulla
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθuʝa/ [ˈθu.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain)
- IPA(key): /ˈθuʎa/ [ˈθu.ʎa] (rustic northern Spain)
- IPA(key): /ˈsuʝa/ [ˈsu.ʝa] (most of Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ˈsuʎa/ [ˈsu.ʎa] (Andes Mountains Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ˈsuʃa/ [ˈsu.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ˈsuʒa/ [ˈsu.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -uʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- Rhymes: -uʎa (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -uʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -uʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: zu‧lla
Etymology 1
Noun
zulla f (plural zullas)
Etymology 2
Variant of sulla, from Andalusian Arabic سُلَّة (sulla), سِلَّة (silla), meaning this very plant.
Noun
zulla f (plural zullas)
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “zulla”, 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