tala

• Rhymes: -ɑːlə

Borrowed from Samoan tālā, in turn from English dollar.

tala (plural talas)

1. The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene.

Borrowed from Sanskrit ताल (tālá).

tala (plural talas)

1. (music) A rhythmic pattern in Indian music.

• laya

• Alt-A, Alta, Alta., Lata, alta, lata

Of Mongolic origin.[1] Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *tala, *tal-b- (“steppe, open place”),[2] whence also Modern Mongolian тала (tala).

• IPA^(key): [tɑˈɫɑ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧la

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tala (definite accusative talanı, plural talalar)

1. open place in a forest, meadow, glade

• → Armenian: թալա (tʻala)

• Hyphenation: ta‧la
• IPA^(key): /taˈlaʔ/, [taˈl̪aʔ]

talâ

1. trace (of a line)

   Synonym: gira

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈta.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈta.la]

Deverbal from talar.

tala f (plural tales)

1. felling, woodcutting
2. destruction

tala

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɛaːla/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːla
• Homophone: talað

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).

tala f (genitive singular talu, plural talur)

1. talk, conversation

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talōną.

tala (third person singular past indicative talaði, third person plural past indicative talað, supine talað)

1. to speak

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tala

1. third-person singular past historic of taler

Perhaps from Latin tabula (compare falar < Latin fabulare).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtalɐ]

tala f (plural talas)

1. wooden object that squeezes or pressures, not allowing free movement; splint
2. wooden tongs used for picking chestnuts burrs

   Synonym: colledoira

• entalar

• “tala” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tala” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tala” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰaːla/
• Rhymes: -aːla

  Homophones: Tala

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”). Cognate with Dutch taal (“language, speech”), English tale (“number”) (from Middle English, from Old English talu (“calculation; story”)), German Zahl (“number, figure”), Danish tale (“speech”), Latin dolus (“guile, deceit, fraud”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “wile, bait”), Old Armenian տող (toł, “row”). Related to tell, talk.

tala f (genitive singular tölu, nominative plural tölur)

1. a short address, a speech
2. button

   Það á ekki að hneppa neðstu tölunni.

   You are not supposed to fasten the lowest button.

3. number

   Milljón er stór tala.

   A million is a big number.

4. (grammar) number

   Í hvaða tölu er orðið ‚hestur‘? — Það er í eintölu.

   What number is the word ‘horse’? — It is singular.

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talōną.

1=talaði
2=talað

tala

1. to talk

• eins og um var talað
• tala um

Borrowed from French tel, Italian tale, Spanish tal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.la/

tala

1. such, like: of that kind

• tale (“so, in such a manner”)
• tale ke (“so that, in such a way that”)
• talmaniere (“thus, so, in such a way”)
• tala quala (“such as”)

From Sanskrit ताल (tāla).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ala]
• Hyphenation: ta‧la

tala (first-person possessive talaku, second-person possessive talamu, third-person possessive talanya)

1. (music) tune.
2. (music) tuning fork.

   Synonym: garpu tala

• “tala” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

tala

1. to look
2. to visit

tala

1. to look
2. to visit

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːlɑ/

tala n

1. definite plural of tal

• talen

• IPA^(key): /²tɑːlɑ/

tala f

1. definite singular of tale

From Old Norse tala.

• tale (e-infinitive)
• tålå (dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /²tɑːlɑ/

tala (present tense talar or taler, past tense tala or talte, past participle tala or talt, passive infinitive talast, present participle talande, imperative tal)

1. to speak, talk
2. to make a speech

• uttala
• vi talast

• “tala” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *talō.

tala f (genitive tǫlu)

1. speech, discourse
2. tale, number
3. (grammar) number
4. bead

• tal n (“number”)
• tala (“to speak”)
• telja (“to count”)

• “tala1”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tala in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

From Proto-Germanic *talōną, also from *talō.

tala

1. to talk, speak
2. to speak, make speech
3. to record, tell
4. (with prepositions)
   1. (til + genitive) to talk to, speak to

      Rútr talaði þá til Marðar (gen.) ― Ruth then spoke to Mǫrðr

   2. (um + accusative) to talk about (something)
   3. (við + accusative) to talk with, speak to (someone)

• talaðr (“spoken, speaking”)
• tǫlugr (“well-spoken”)

• tal n (“number”)
• tala (“speech”)
• telja (“to count”)

• “tala2”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tala in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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-tala

1. to become full

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-bíada.

-tála

1. to bear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Rhymes: -alɐ
• Hyphenation: ta‧la

From Latin tabula (“table”). Doublet of tábula.

tala f (plural talas)

1. (medicine, first aid) splint (thin and rigid device used to immobilize a body part or a fractured bone)
2. (figuratively) an object that squeezes or pressures, not allowing free movement
3. (figuratively, usually in the plural) something that causes difficulties or limitations, a liability, an obstacle
4. (Brazil) a type of leather whip
5. (tailoring) device used to widen the opening of hats
6. act of furrowing fields in order to unflood them

Borrowed from English tala, from Samoan tālā, in turn from English dollar.

tala f (plural talas)

1. tala (basic currency unit of Samoa)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tala

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

Borrowed from Bengali তালা (tala).

tala

1. lock

tala

1. story

• tusitala

tálā (Cyrillic spelling та́ла̄)

1. genitive plural of tlo

tala

1. green
2. blue

tala

1. unripe

• IPA^(key): /ˈtala/ [ˈt̪a.la]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: ta‧la

Deverbal from talar.

tala f (uncountable)

1. (forestry) felling, cutting down

tala

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

• (noun): deforestación
• (verb): desmontar

Borrowed from Quechua tara.

tala m (plural talas)

1. tala (Celtis tala, a South American tree)

Uncertain, according to some from Latin tālea (“long and slender stick”), according to others from Arabic طَالِع (ṭāliʕ, “rising”).

tala f (plural talas)

1. tipcat (game and stick)

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

From Proto-Bantu *-bíada.

-tála

1. to bear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːˌla/

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tala (present talar, preterite talade, supine talat, imperative tala)

1. (somewhat formal) to speak; to utter words; to tell
2. (somewhat formal) to talk (to someone)
3. (somewhat formal) to make a speech

Språka is quite rare and is used about close or intimate talk. Prata is the most common, and is mainly used of informal talking. Tala is a more formal word in its own right, and mainly used about formal speeches, lecturing etc., but also in some expressions. In imperative it is also an encouragement to speak up.

• prata
• språka
• snacka (colloquial)

• säga

• lata

Uncertain. Possibly from either:

• From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talaq.
• From Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”). Possible doublet of estrelya.

Compare Balinese ᬢᬭᬵ (tala) and Kapampangan tala.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtalaʔ/ [ˈta.lɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -alaʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧la

talà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎ)

1. (astronomy, strictly) morning star; any bright star (except the Sun)

   Synonym: lusero

2. (astronomy) star

   Synonyms: bituin, estrelya

3. (astronomy, loosely) any astronomical body (such as a star, a planet, or a comet)
4. (figurative) beautiful woman

   Synonym: paraluman

5. (figurative) celebrity (artist, actor, etc.)

   Synonym: bituin

Derived from Sanskrit ताल (tāla, “palmyra or fan palm tree”) whose leaves were used to write on, according to Potet (2016). Compare Cebuano mantala.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈlaʔ/ [tɐˈlaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧la

talâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎ)

1. record; notes

   Synonyms: listahan, talaan, lista, nota

2. listing; jotting down on a list

   Synonym: pagtatala

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtala/ [ˈta.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: ta‧la

tala (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎ)

1. Limnophila rugosa (a type of marshweed used for cooking as an aromatic)

• “tala”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 299

• alat, lata

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.la]
• Hyphenation: ta‧la

From Proto-Polynesian *tala. Cognates include Hawaiian kala and Samoan tala.

tala

1. story
2. news
3. statement, account
4. rumour, gossip
5. tale, legend
6. novel
7. play

tala

1. (transitive) to tell, narrate

• tala kave

From Proto-Polynesian *tara. Cognates include Tahitian tara and Samoan tala.

tala

1. end of a traditional house with a gable

From Proto-Polynesian *tala. Cognates include Hawaiian kala and Samoan tala.

tala

1. (transitive) to demolish, destroy
2. (transitive) to undo, open

tala

1. (transitive) to change (money)
2. (transitive) to withdraw (money)
3. (transitive) to let a pharmacist make (a drug)

tala

1. (transitive) to dilute

From Proto-Polynesian *tala. Cognates include Maori tara and Samoan tara.

tala

1. thorn, spike

tala

1. (transitive) to strip off using thorns

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 362

tala

1. seagull

tala

1. to draw (a line)

• (third-person singular present/future; second-person singular imperative): tâl
• (first-person singular present/future): talaf

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtala/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈta(ː)la/

tala

1. inflection of talu:
   1. second-person singular imperative
   2. third-person singular present/future literary
   3. first-person singular future colloquial

• IPA^(key): /ˈtala/

tala

1. Colloquial form of talaf (“tallest”)

Compare Ternate tola (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪a.l̪a/

tala

1. (transitive) to cut
2. (transitive) to cross (a river)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

tala

1. far

   Antonym: tapit

tala

1. eye