cholla

English

Etymology

From a Mexican Spanish use of Spanish cholla (“head, skull”). Compare keel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔɪ.ə/, enPR: choiʹə
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪə

Noun

cholla (plural chollas)

  1. Any of several species of cactus in the genus Cylindropuntia, having very spiny, cylindrical stem segments.
    • 1889 January 26, “Archæological camping in Arizona”, in American Architect and Architecture, volume 52, page 43:
      Throughout Arizona the floors of such caves are found covered with a deep bed of chollas.
    • 1890 October, “A Series of Eggs of Palmer's Thrasher”, in The Ornithologist and Oölogist, volume 15, page 155:
      The cholla was two feet high, and six feet in diameter.
    • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 17, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:
      The terrain was thick with cholla and clumps of it clung to the horses with spikes that would drive through a bootsole to the bones within […]
    • 2009 February 26, Karen Crouse, “Woods Returns as He Left: A Winner”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      On the front nine, Jones stuck to Woods like a cholla cactus.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈxʌl̪ˠə/

Noun

cholla

  1. lenited form of colla

Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃoʝa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃoʎa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃoʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃoʒa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

  • Syllabification: cho‧lla

Etymology 1

Possibly from Old French cholle (“head”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *keula (“mace”), earlier "lump, lump of coal," from Proto-Germanic *kulą.[1]

Noun

cholla f (plural chollas)

  1. cholla (cactus)
  2. (figurative) reason, understanding
  3. (colloquial, Honduras) head
  4. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) laziness

Etymology 2

Verb

cholla

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

See also

References

  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Further reading

Tagalog

Noun

cholla (masculine chollo, Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ)

  1. alternative spelling of chola
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