Galle

See also: galle and gälle

English

Proper noun

Galle

1. A city in Sri Lanka.

Translations

city in Sri Lanka

• Sinhalese: ගාල්ල (gālla)
• Tamil: காலி (ta) (kāli)
• Urdu: گال m (gāl)

Anagrams

• Legal, egall, legal

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡalə/
• Rhymes: -alə

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

Galle f (genitive Galle, plural Gallen)

1. bile, gall
2. (colloquial) gallbladder

Declension

Declension of Galle [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Galle	die	Gallen
genitive	einer	der	Galle	der	Gallen
dative	einer	der	Galle	den	Gallen
accusative	eine	die	Galle	die	Gallen

Related terms

• gallen
• gallig

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle High German galle, from Proto-West Germanic *gallō, from Proto-Germanic *gallô. Cognate with Old English ġealla and Icelandic galli.

Noun

Galle f (genitive Galle, plural Gallen)

1. (veterinary medicine) abnormal swelling
2. (phytopathology) gall (like that caused by the gall wasp)

Further reading

• “Galle#1” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Galle#2” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Galle” in Duden online
• “Galle” in Duden online

Latin

Adjective

Galle

1. vocative masculine singular of Gallus

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *galle, from Proto-West Germanic *gallā, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.

Noun

Galle f

1. gall
2. bile