pulla - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

English[edit]

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pulla

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Finnish pulla, from Swedish bulle. Doublet of bowl and boule.

Noun[edit]

pulla (countable and uncountable, plural pullas)

1. A sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten in Finland.

   • 1986, Melissa Ladenheim, "The sauna in central New York:

     "Then we would all have coffee and pulla bread," recalled Hilma Wainio of Spencer.

     See Also

     How Do You Eat Pulla?Lapland Bakery - Rye breadCould you give me some information on the origin of the word nisu? Is it a Swedish word? When did pulla replace this word? I live in Ohio, and the Finnish…Nisu: Finnish Cardamom Bread

   • 1991 September 22, Eleanor Charles, “Connecticut Guide”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Other locally made items include pulla, a foot-long braided bread flavored with cardamom and priced at $6 a loaf, and wood carvings.

   • 1992, Joan Potter Loveless, Three Weavers, page 29:

     Pulla is a braided yeast loaf, flavored with freshly ground cardamom and sprinkled with chopped almonds and sugar […]

   • 1992, Aili Jarvenpa, In Two Cultures: The Stories of Second Generation Finnish Americans:

     I remember the best, the years on the farm, wild roses and mushrooms that you picked near the pasture, cardamom pulla warm from the oven, […]

   • 2013, Colleen Coble, Rock Harbor Search and Rescue: Lost and Found, page 106:

     Come on, your dad's grabbed us all some pullas and cider.

   • 2018, Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., Zoë François, Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day: Sweet and Decadent Baking for Every Occasion:

     You can expect to be served a slice of pulla with your afternoon coffee in any Finnish household.

     See Also

     Swedish Braided Cardamom Bread

Anagrams[edit]

• Paull, all-up, pallu

Finnish[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

cardamom bread

Wikipedia

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Swedish bulle, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ. Doublet of pullo.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulːɑ/, [ˈpulːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ulːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pul‧la

Noun[edit]

pulla

1. cardamom bread, pulla (mildly sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency)

   Synonyms: nisu, vehnänen

2. (broadly) sweet roll, sweet bun (sweet, leavened baked good, often small enough to comprise a single serving)

   Synonyms: nisu, vehnänen

3. (in compounds) ball (roundish food made of meat or similar ingredient and often cooked)

   Synonym: pyörykkä

   lihapulla ― meatball

   falafel-pulla ― falafel ball

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• → English: pulla

Further reading[edit]

• “pulla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Latin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• pulla: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpʊlːʲä]
• pulla: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpulːä]
• pullā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.laː/, [ˈpʊlːʲäː]
• pullā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpulːä]

Adjective[edit]

pulla

1. inflection of pullus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective[edit]

pullā

1. ablative feminine singular of pullus

References[edit]

• pulla 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)

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Portuguese pulha.

Pronunciation[edit]

• Syllabification: pu‧lla

Noun[edit]

pullaf (plural pullas)

1. an obscenity
2. a gibe; a burn; a dig

See also[edit]

• puya

Further reading[edit]

• “pulla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From the interjection pull, used to attract a hen or other bird. Compare the origins of kisse, misse, and pålle.

Noun[edit]

pullac

1. (colloquial) a hen

   Synonym: höna

Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Perhaps the same word as pula.

Verb[edit]

pulla (present pullar, preterite pullade, supine pullat, imperative pulla)

1. (vulgar, intransitive and transitive) to finger (oneself, for example during masturbation, or someone else)

   Synonym: fingerpulla

Conjugation[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

• fingerpulla
• rövpulla

See also[edit]

• klittra

References[edit]

• pulla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pulla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pulla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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