φωλιά

Inherited from Ancient Greek φωλεά (phōleá), an alternative form of φωλεός (phōleós, “den, lair”), with the ending replaced by -ιά (-iá).

• IPA^(key): /foˈʎa/
• Hyphenation: φω‧λιά

φωλιά • (foliá) f (plural φωλιές)

1. nest (a structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young)
2. nest (a place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young)
3. animal's home: burrow (rabbit), den (lion, tiger, wolf, etc), drey (squirrel), earth (fox), eyrie (eagle), form (hare), hive (bee), holt (otter), lair (tiger), lodge (beaver), rookery (rook), sett (badger), vespiary (wasp), warren (rabbit)
4. (figuratively) hideout
5. (figuratively) den

• ⇒ Greek: φώλι (fóli)
  • → Azerbaijani: fal (“nest-egg”), fala
    • → Georgian: ფალ (pal, “nest-egg”) — Ingilo
  • → Ottoman Turkish: فول (fol, “nest-egg”)
    • Turkish: fol, fala, hal, hol, höl, holu (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Greek: αποφώλι (apofóli)
  • ⇒ Pontic Greek: πιφώλι (pifóli), πιφώλ’ (pifól’) — Ophitic
    • → Laz: პიჶოლი (p̌ifoli), კიჶოლი (ǩifoli), კუჶოლი (ǩufoli)
    • → Turkish: pifoli — Rize

• φωλιά, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

• φωλιά on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el