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pulla

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Borrowed fromFinnishpulla, fromSwedishbulle.Doublet ofbowl andboule.

pulla (countable anduncountable,pluralpullas)

1. A sweet, leavened baked good made ofwheat and flavored with crushedcardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten inFinland.
   • 1986, Melissa Ladenheim,"The sauna in central New York:

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

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

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

   • 1992, Joan Potter Loveless,Three Weavers, page29:

     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, cardamompulla warm from the oven,[…]

   • 2013, Colleen Coble,Rock Harbor Search and Rescue: Lost and Found, page106:

     Come on, your dad's grabbed us all somepullas 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 ofpulla with your afternoon coffee in any Finnish household.

• Paull,all-up,pallu

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cardamom bread

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Borrowed fromSwedishbulle, ultimately fromProto-Germanic*bullǭ.Doublet ofpullo.

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

pulla

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

   Synonyms:nisu,vehnänen

2. (specifically) a simple soft, sweetbun flavored with crushedcardamom and often topped with somenibsugar
3. (loosely)sweetroll, sweetbun(sweet, leavened baked good, often small enough to comprise a single serving)

   Synonyms:nisu,vehnänen

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

   Synonym:pyörykkä

   lihapulla ―meatball

   falafel-pulla ―falafelball

• → English:pulla

• “pulla”, inKielitoimiston 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–, retrieved3 July 2023

• pulla:
  • (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈpʊl.la]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈpul.la]
• pullā:
  • (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈpʊl.laː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈpul.la]

pulla

1. inflection ofpullus:
   1. nominative/vocativefemininesingular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural

pullā

1. ablativefemininesingular ofpullus

• "pulla", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed fromPortuguesepulha.

• Syllabification:pu‧lla

pulla f (pluralpullas)

1. anobscenity
2. agibe; aburn; adig

• puya

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

From the interjectionpull, used to attract a hen or other bird. Compare the origins ofkisse,misse, andpålle.

pulla c

1. (colloquial) ahen

   Synonym:höna

Perhaps the same word aspula.

pulla (presentpullar,preteritepullade,supinepullat,imperativepulla)

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

   Synonym:fingerpulla

• fingerpulla
• rövpulla

• klittra

• pulla inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• pulla inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pulla inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Fula Ordboken

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