tule

See also: Tule and tulę

English

A stand of tules.

Etymology

From Spanish tule, from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːli/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -uːli

Noun

tule (plural tules)

1. (US) Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus
   • 1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40:

     This consisted of a two-room house built of chittim poles, with no floor, a thatched roof of tules, and a windbreak of buffalo and cowhides to the north of it.

2. A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin

Synonyms

• (sedge): common tule, hardstem tule, tule rush, hardstem bulrush, viscid bulrush

Derived terms

• tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes)
• tule fog
• tule shrew
• in the tules

Further reading

• tule on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lute, Lute, tuel, Tuel, Elut

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtulɛ]

Verb

tule

1. masculine singular present transgressive of tulit

Estonian

Noun

tule

1. genitive singular of tuli

Verb

tule

1. Second-person singular imperative form of tulema.

   Tule!

   Come!

2. Present connegative form of tulema.

   Ma/sa/ta/me/te/nad ei tule.

   I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they don't come.

3. Second-person singular imperative connegative form of tulema.

   Ära tule!

   Don't come!

Finnish

Verb

tule

1. present active indicative connegative of tulla

   En/et/ei/emme/ette/eivät tule.

   I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they don't come.

2. second-person singular present imperative of tulla

   Tule!

   Come!

3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of tulla

   Älä tule!

   Don't come!

Anagrams

• luet

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀢𑀼𑀮𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• तुले (Devanagari script)
• তুলে (Bengali script)
• තුලෙ (Sinhalese script)
• တုလေ (Burmese script)
• ตุเล (Thai script)
• ᨲᩩᩃᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ຕຸເລ (Lao script)
• តុលេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄖𑄪𑄣𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

tule

1. vocative singular of tulā (“balance”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.lɛ/
• Rhymes: -ulɛ
• Syllabification: tu‧le

Noun

tule m

1. locative/vocative singular of tuł

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtule/ [ˈt̪u.le]
• Rhymes: -ule
• Syllabification: tu‧le

Noun

tule m (plural tules)

1. tule (freshwater sedge)

Descendants

• English: tule

See also

• espadaña, junco

Further reading

• “tule”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10