halla

halla (countable and uncountable, plural hallas or hallot or halloth or hallos)

1. Alternative form of challah.

• IPA^(key): [haɫ̪a]

halla f

1. inflection of hallë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

halla

1. genitive/partitive/illative singular of hall

From Proto-Finnic *halla, from earlier *šalna, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Lithuanian šalnà and Latvian salna).^[1] Cognates include Estonian hall and Northern Sami suoldni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlːɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): hal‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): hal‧la

halla

1. frost, killing frost (below-freezing temperature that occurs at night during the growing season)
2. frost damage (damage caused by such frost)

   alavilla mailla hallan vaara ― risk of frost damage in low-lying areas

3. (figuratively) damage, harm

   tehdä hallaa ― to do damage, do harm

• “halla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• Allah

• IPA^(key): /ˈhatla/
• Rhymes: -atla
• Homophone: Halla

From Old Norse hallr (“slant, slope”).

halla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hallaði, supine hallað)

1. (intransitive) to slant
2. to cause to slant, lay or let down (into a slanting position, or to rest) [with dative]
3. (dative reflexive) to go to sleep, take a nap

halla

1. indefinite genitive plural of höll

From Proto-Finnic *halla. Cognates include Finnish halla and Estonian hall.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlːɑ/, [ˈhɑɫː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlːɑ/, [ˈhɑɫːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlː, -ɑlːɑ
• Hyphenation: hal‧la

halla

1. frost
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 37:

     Hanhet lentäät - hallat tulloot.

     The geese fly - winter season [lit. "frosts"] is coming.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 42

From Middle Irish halla, borrowed from Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu, from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhal̪ˠə/

halla m (genitive singular halla, nominative plural hallaí)

1. hall
2. (usually in the plural) mansion
3. study hall
4. public building
5. hallway

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “halla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “halla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “halla”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “halla”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• haulla, hala

Borrowed from Frankish *hallu (“large room, hall”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhal.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.la]

halla f (genitive hallae); first declension^[1][2] (Medieval Latin)

1. house, dwelling
2. court, forecourt
3. palace, large residence
4. market hall

First-declension noun.

• Old French: halle, hale
  • Middle French: halle
    • French: halle
      • → Turkish: hal
  • Norman: halle (Jèrriais)
  • → Middle English: hale
    • English: hale (dialectal)

halla f sg

1. definite singular of hall (“hall”)

halla n pl

1. definite plural of hall (“slope, sloping terrain”)

halla

1. accusative/genitive plural of hallr

halla

1. inflection of hallr:
   1. strong feminine accusative singular
   2. strong masculine accusative plural
   3. weak feminine/neuter nominative singular
   4. weak masculine/neuter accusative/dative/genitive singular

• Homophones: haya, aya (in dialects with yeísmo)

halla

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