sulla

• sullah

Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੁੱਲਾ (sullā, “Muslim (derogatory)”), a mispronunciation (or perhaps a misspelling in Gurmukhi script) of Punjabi ਮੁੱਲਾ (mullā, “mullah, Islamic religious leader”), derived from Classical Persian ملا (mullā), from Arabic مُلَّا (mullā).

sulla (plural sullas)

1. (South Asia, religious slur, ethnic slur, offensive) A Muslim man; especially one from Pakistan.

• In the modern day, the term is most often used by Sikhs on social media. This usage is rooted in long-standing historical animosity between Sikhs and Muslims in South Asia.
• The term is used infrequently by Hindutva supremacists, as it is not native to Hindi.

• mulla (rare)
• musalla (very rare)

• sulli, mulli, musalli (equivalent term for Muslim women)
• sikhrey (from sikrey, lit. lice-ridden ones; an anti-Sikh slur used by Pakistanis, particularly Mirpuris, in reference to Sikhs' long unshaven hair)

• allus, Aulls

Contracted from the standard form sinulla.

sulla

1. (colloquial) adessive singular of sä

From Old Norse sulla (“to swill”), perhaps from Old Norse sollr, *sullr (“swill, slop for pigs”), from Proto-Germanic *swulaz (“swill”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to wash, wash down, gulp, swallow”). Cognate with English swill. Compare also Old Norse svalla (“to drink heavily, swill”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʏtla/
• Rhymes: -ʏtla

sulla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sullaði, supine sullað)

1. to splash around, to splash about

   Ég vil sulla í pollinum!

   I wanna go splashing about in the puddle!

   Þetta er mynd af Önnu að sulla.

   This is a picture of Anna splashing.

2. to spill

   Ég sullaði mjólkinni.

   I spilled the milk.

• The verb sulla and sulla saman (“to mix together”) denote a hint of apathy, carelessness or casualness of the doer's actions.
• This verb may be found childish.
• In the sense of "spilling" the preposition á (“on”) may be added to give information as to where one spilled something:

  Ég sullaði mjólk á gólfið.

  I spilled milk on the floor.

• sulla á (“to spill on”)
• sulla saman (“to mix something”)

• sull

sulla

1. contraction of su la; on the

• IPA^(key): /ˈsul.la/

sulla f (plural silel)

1. alternative form of silla: French honeysuckle (Hedysarum coronarium)

From Proto-Samic *sulë.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsulla/

sulla

1. approximation, resemblance (of something)
2. estimate

• sullii

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Proto-Finnic *suladak.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈsulɑː/, [ˈsuɫːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ulɑː
• Hyphenation: sul‧la

sulla

1. (intransitive) to melt, thaw
2. (intransitive) to dissolve

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “sulaa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn