pulla

Borrowed from Finnish pulla, from Swedish bulle. Doublet of bowl and boule.

pulla (countable and uncountable, plural pullas)

1. 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:

     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.

• Paull, all-up, pallu

Borrowed from Swedish bulle, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ. Doublet of pullo.

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

pulla

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

   Synonyms: nisu, vehnänen

2. (broadly) sweet roll, sweet bun (sweet, leavened baked good, often small enough to comprise a single serving)

   Synonyms: nisu, vehnänen

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

   Synonym: pyörykkä

   lihapulla ― meatball

   falafel-pulla ― falafel ball

• → English: pulla

• “pulla”, 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 2023-07-03

• 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]

pulla

1. inflection of pullus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

pullā

1. ablative feminine singular of pullus

• 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)

Borrowed from Portuguese pulha.

• Syllabification: pu‧lla

pulla f (plural pullas)

1. an obscenity
2. a gibe; a burn; a dig

• puya

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

From the interjection pull, used to attract a hen or other bird. Compare the origins of kisse, misse, and pålle.

pulla c

1. (colloquial) a hen

   Synonym: höna

Perhaps the same word as pula.

pulla (present pullar, preterite pullade, supine pullat, imperative pulla)

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

   Synonym: fingerpulla

• fingerpulla
• rövpulla

• klittra

• pulla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pulla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pulla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)