talla

talla (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of tella (“African beer”)

• Allat, at all, atall

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈta.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈta.ʎa]

Deverbal from tallar. Compare French taille.

talla f (plural talles)

1. (clothing) size

talla

1. inflection of tallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “talla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “talla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “talla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

talla

1. genitive singular of tald

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlːɑ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): tal‧la

From Proto-Finnic *talla, probably from the same root as tallata, with a possible secondary Germanic origin (akin to that of etymology 2).

talla

1. sole (bottom or lower part of anything on which it rests)
2. runner (smooth strip on which a sledge runs)
3. (slang) gas pedal, acceleration pedal, accelerator, throttle (pedal)

   Talla pohjaan!

   Floor it!

• (gas pedal): kaasupoljin

• “2. talla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Borrowed from Swedish stall.

talla

1. (music) bridge (piece on a stringed instrument that supports the strings)

• kielisilta

• talli

• “1. talla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From Old Galician-Portuguese talla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Back-formation from tallar. Compare Portuguese talha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʎa̝/

talla f (plural tallas)

1. carving, make, cut
2. carving, sculpture

   Synonym: escultura

3. notch
4. height, stature

   Synonyms: altura, estatura

5. size
6. first cut practiced to a tree when cutting down it
7. notched wood strip used to codify debts or obligations
8. ditch

   Synonym: birta

9. (archaic) tax

   Synonym: taxa

talla

1. inflection of tallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• tallar
• tallo

• “talla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “talla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “talla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “talla” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “talla” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /tàl.là/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tàl.lə̀]

tàllà m (plural tàllàce-tàllàce, possessed form tàllàn)

1. Hawking goods for sale.
2. advertising

From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂l- (“to grow; young animal”), like Latin talea (“scion”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtal.la/, [ˈt̪älːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtal.la/, [ˈt̪älːä]

talla f (genitive tallae); first declension

1. a peel or coat of an onion

First-declension noun.

• “talla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• talla 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)

talla n

1. definite plural of tall

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰal̪ˠə/

talla m (genitive singular tallachan, plural tallaichean)

1. hall
2. rock

• Syllabification: ta‧lla

Borrowed from French taille, with some senses taken from Catalan talla or Italian taglia.

talla f (plural tallas)

1. size

   Synonym: tamaño

2. clothing size
3. height
4. carving
5. (Chile, colloquial) joke

   Synonyms: broma, chiste

talla

1. inflection of tallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

talla (present tallar, preterite tallade, supine tallat, imperative talla)

1. (colloquial) to (lightly) touch (something that ought not to be touched)

   Sluta talla på fönsterrutan! Det blir fingeravtryck.

   Stop touching the window pane! It'll leave fingerprints.

2. (colloquial) to grope (touch sexually), usually against someone's will

   Synonyms: kladda, tafsa, (molest) antasta

• talla in Svensk ordbok (SO)