pulla
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Finnish pulla, from Swedish bulle. Doublet of bowl and boule.
Noun edit
pulla (countable and uncountable, plural pullas)
- 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.
- 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.
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Swedish bulle, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ. Doublet of pullo.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pulla
- cardamom bread, pulla (mildly sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency)
- (broadly) sweet roll, sweet bun (sweet, leavened baked good, often small enough to comprise a single serving)
- (in compounds) ball (roundish food made of meat or similar ingredient and often cooked)
- Synonym: pyörykkä
- lihapulla ― meatball
- falafel-pulla ― falafel ball
Declension edit
Inflection of pulla (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | pulla | pullat | ||
genitive | pullan | pullien | ||
partitive | pullaa | pullia | ||
illative | pullaan | pulliin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | pulla | pullat | ||
accusative | nom. | pulla | pullat | |
gen. | pullan | |||
genitive | pullan | pullien pullainrare | ||
partitive | pullaa | pullia | ||
inessive | pullassa | pullissa | ||
elative | pullasta | pullista | ||
illative | pullaan | pulliin | ||
adessive | pullalla | pullilla | ||
ablative | pullalta | pullilta | ||
allative | pullalle | pullille | ||
essive | pullana | pullina | ||
translative | pullaksi | pulliksi | ||
abessive | pullatta | pullitta | ||
instructive | — | pullin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
- aurinkopulla
- dallaspulla
- falafel-pulla
- junttapulla
- kalapulla
- kasvispulla
- kilopulla
- laskiaispulla
- lihapulla
- nisupulla
- pakkopulla
- pikkupulla
- pullahiiri
- pullakahvi
- pullamössö
- pullantuoksu
- pullapelti
- pullapitko
- pullasorsa
- pullasuti
- pullataikina
- rahkapulla
- rusinapulla
- teksaspulla
- tikkupulla
- toscapulla
- täytepulla
- vehnäpulla
- viineripulla
- voipulla
- voisilmäpulla
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
- inflection of pullus:
Adjective edit
pullā
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
pulla f (plural pullas)
See also edit
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
pulla c
- (colloquial) a hen
- Synonym: höna
Declension edit
Declension of pulla | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | pulla | pullan | pullor | pullorna |
Genitive | pullas | pullans | pullors | pullornas |
Etymology 2 edit
Perhaps the same word as pula.
Verb edit
pulla (present pullar, preterite pullade, supine pullat, imperative pulla)
- (vulgar, intransitive and transitive) to finger (oneself, for example during masturbation, or someone else)
- Synonym: fingerpulla
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of pulla (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | pulla | pullas | ||
Supine | pullat | pullats | ||
Imperative | pulla | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | pullen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | pullar | pullade | pullas | pullades |
Ind. plural1 | pulla | pullade | pullas | pullades |
Subjunctive2 | pulle | pullade | pulles | pullades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | pullande | |||
Past participle | pullad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |