gola

gola (plural golas)

1. Alternative form of golah.

• Olga, algo-, gaol, algo, Lago, goal, Galo

gola

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

Inherited from Old Catalan gola, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡo.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡo.la]

gola f (plural goles)

1. throat

   Synonym: gorja

2. maw (mouth of a beast)

   ficar-se a la gola del llop ― to put oneself in extreme danger

3. gorget (a piece of armour)

   Synonym: gorjal

4. gluttony
5. slough, bayou
6. inlet

   Synonym: grau

7. (art) ogee

• golanegre
• golós
• golut

• golafre
• goleta

• “gola”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “gola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “gola” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gola” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin gula.

gola f (plural goles) (ORB, broad)

1. snout

• gueule in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• gola in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

From Old Galician-Portuguese *goella, from Latin *gulella, from gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔla/

gola f (plural golas)

1. throat

   Synonyms: garganta, gorxa

• “gola”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gola”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gola”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gola”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Norse gola, gula, gol (“a breeze”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːla/
• Rhymes: -ɔːla

gola f (genitive singular golu, nominative plural golur)

1. breeze

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔl̪ˠə/, /ˈɡɔlˠə/^[1]

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gola m (genitive singular gola, nominative plural golaí)

1. (anatomy) orifice

gola m sg

1. genitive singular of gol (“weeping, crying”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gola”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.la/
• Rhymes: -ola
• Hyphenation: gó‧la

• Audio:

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gola f (plural gole)

1. throat
2. gluttony, greed: one of i sette peccati capitali
3. gorge, defile
4. stack, flue

• gola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• algo-, goal, lago

From Latin gula.

gola f (plural goles)

1. (Gherdëina) craving

   Śën ei la gola de na pizza.

   Now I have a craving for pizza.

gola

1. sugar

gola f

1. superseded spelling of góla

Cognate with French gueule. From Latin gula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡola/

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gola f (plural golas)

1. snout, face
2. opening
3. (colloquial) mouth

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 327.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: go‧la

gola

1. genitive/accusative singular of gol

From Old Galician-Portuguese gola, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”). Doublet of gula.

• Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
• Hyphenation: go‧la

gola f (plural golas)

1. collar
2. cornice

• goela

• → Konkani: गोल (gol)

• “gola” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

gola

1. neck

Inherited from Old Spanish gola, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”). Doublet of the borrowing gula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡola/ [ˈɡo.la]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: go‧la

gola f (plural golas)

1. throat
2. collar
3. (clothing) ruff
4. (architecture) cornice
5. (geography) canal
6. (archaic) gorget (a piece of armor for the throat)

• “gola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Tavringer Romani gola (“shout, scream”). Attested since the late 1960s.

gola (present golar, preterite golade, supine golat, imperative gola)

1. (slang, sometimes with ner (“down”)) to snitch, to rat out

   Synonym: tjalla

   Tony golade ner sin polare

   Tony snitched on his buddy

   Jag tror jag vet vem det var som golade

   I think I know who ratted us out

• golare (“snitch”)
• golare har inga polare (“snitches get stitches”)
• golbög

• gola in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gola in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

From Proto-Bantu *-kʊ́da.

gola

1. (intransitive) to grow, to increase
2. (intransitive) to mature