tala

• Rhymes: -ɑːlə

Borrowed from Samoan tālā, in turn from English dollar.

tala (plural talas)

1. The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene.

Borrowed from Sanskrit ताल (tālá).

tala (plural talas)

1. (music) A rhythmic pattern in Indian music.

• laya

• lata, LATA, Alta., Lata, Alta, Alt-A, Taal, alta

Of Mongolic origin.^[1] Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *tala, *tal-b- (“steppe, open place”),^[2] whence also Modern Mongolian тала (tala).

• IPA^(key): [tɑˈɫɑ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧la

• Audio:

  (file)

tala (definite accusative talanı, plural talalar)

1. open place in a forest, meadow, glade

• → Armenian: թալա (tʻala)

• IPA^(key): /taˈlaʔ/ [taˈl̪aʔ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧la

talâ (Basahan spelling ᜆᜎ)

1. trace (of a line)

   Synonym: gira

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

Deverbal from talar.

tala f (plural tales)

1. felling, woodcutting
2. destruction

tala

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɛaːla/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːla
• Homophone: talað

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).

tala f (genitive singular talu, plural talur)

1. talk, conversation

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talōną.

tala (third person singular past indicative talaði, third person plural past indicative talað, supine talað)

1. to speak

• Audio:

  (file)

tala

1. third-person singular past historic of taler

Perhaps from Latin tabula (compare falar < Latin fabulare).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtalɐ]

tala f (plural talas)

1. wooden object that squeezes or pressures, not allowing free movement; splint
2. wooden tongs used for picking chestnuts burrs

   Synonym: colledoira

• entalar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tala”, 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), “tala”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tala”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰaːla/
• Rhymes: -aːla

  Homophone: Tala

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).

Cognate with Dutch taal (“language, speech”), English tale (“number”) (from Middle English, from Old English talu (“calculation; story”)), German Zahl (“number, figure”), Danish tale (“speech”), Latin dolus (“guile, deceit, fraud”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “wile, bait”), Old Armenian տող (toł, “row”). Related to tell, talk.

tala f (genitive singular tölu, nominative plural tölur)

1. a short address, a speech
2. button

   Það á ekki að hneppa neðstu tölunni.

   You are not supposed to fasten the lowest button.

3. number

   Milljón er stór tala.

   A million is a big number.

4. (grammar) number

   Í hvaða tölu er orðið ‚hestur‘? — Það er í eintölu.

   What number is the word ‘horse’? — It is singular.

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talōną.

1=talaði
2=talað

tala

1. to talk

• eins og um var talað
• tala um

Borrowed from French tel, Italian tale, Spanish tal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.la/

tala

1. such, like: of that kind

• tale (“so, in such a manner”)
• tale ke (“so that, in such a way that”)
• talmaniere (“thus, so, in such a way”)
• tala quala (“such as”)

From Sanskrit ताल (tāla).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ala]
• Hyphenation: ta‧la

tala (plural tala-tala)

1. (music) tune
2. (music) tuning fork

   Synonym: garpu tala

• “tala” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtala/ [ˈtaː.lʌ] (“bird”)
  • Rhymes: -ala
• IPA^(key): /taˈla/ [tʌˈla] (“bewitching”)
  • Rhymes: -a
• (Sagada, parts of Sabangan)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtara/ [ˈtaː.rʌ] (“bird”)
    • Rhymes: -ara
  • IPA^(key): /taˈra/ [tʌˈra] (“bewitching”)
    • Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ta‧la

tála

1. An edible bird with white, black, and brown plumage, long tail, kills smaller birds, and mimics the singing of other birds.

talá

1. act of bewitching

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “tala”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎^[1], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 449

tala

1. to look
2. to visit

tala

1. to look
2. to visit

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːlɑ/

tala n

1. definite plural of tal

• talen

• IPA^(key): /²tɑːlɑ/

tala f

1. definite singular of tale

From Old Norse tala.

• tale (e-infinitive)
• tålå (dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /²tɑːlɑ/

tala (present tense talar or taler, past tense tala or talte, past participle tala or talt, passive infinitive talast, present participle talande, imperative tal)

1. to speak, talk
2. to make a speech

• uttala
• vi talast

• “tala” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *talō.

tala f

1. number

• Middle Dutch: tāle
  • Dutch: taal
    • Afrikaans: taal
  • West Flemish: toale

• “tala”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ.lɑ/

tala

1. singular imperative of talian

From Proto-Germanic *talō.

tala f (genitive tǫlu)

1. speech, discourse
2. tale, number
3. (grammar) number
4. bead

• tal n (“number”)
• tala (“to speak”)
• telja (“to count”)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tala1”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 432; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Germanic *talōną, also from *talō.

tala

1. to talk, speak
2. to speak, make speech
3. to record, tell
4. (with prepositions)
   1. to talk to, speak to [with til (+ genitive)]

      Rútr talaði þá til Marðar (gen.) ― Ruth then spoke to Mǫrðr

   2. to talk about (something) [with um (+ accusative)]
   3. to talk with, speak to (someone) [with við (+ accusative)]

• talaðr (“spoken, speaking”)
• tǫlugr (“well-spoken”)

• tal n (“number”)
• tala (“speech”)
• telja (“to count”)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tala2”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 432; also available at the Internet Archive

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-tala

1. to become full

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-bíada.

-tála

1. to bear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Rhymes: -alɐ
• Hyphenation: ta‧la

From Latin tabula (“table”). Doublet of tábula.

tala f (plural talas)

1. (medicine, first aid) splint (thin and rigid device used to immobilize a body part or a fractured bone)
2. (figuratively) an object that squeezes or pressures, not allowing free movement
3. (figuratively, usually in the plural) something that causes difficulties or limitations, a liability, an obstacle
4. (Brazil) a type of leather whip
5. (tailoring) device used to widen the opening of hats
6. act of furrowing fields in order to unflood them

Borrowed from English tala, from Samoan tālā, in turn from English dollar.

tala f (plural talas)

1. tala (basic currency unit of Samoa)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tala

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

Borrowed from Bengali তালা (tala).

tala

1. lock

tala

1. story

• tusitala

tálā (Cyrillic spelling та́ла̄)

1. genitive plural of tlo

tala

1. green
2. blue

tala

1. unripe

• IPA^(key): /ˈtala/ [ˈt̪a.la]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: ta‧la

Deverbal from talar.

tala f (uncountable)

1. (forestry) felling, cutting down

tala

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

• (noun): deforestación
• (verb): desmontar

Borrowed from Quechua tara.

tala m (plural talas)

1. tala (Celtis tala, a South American tree)

Uncertain, according to some from Latin tālea (“long and slender stick”), according to others from Arabic طَالِع (ṭāliʕ, “rising”).

tala f (plural talas)

1. tipcat (game and stick)

• “tala”, 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 Proto-Bantu *-bíada.

-tála

1. to bear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːˌla/

• Audio:

  (file)

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).

tala (present talar, preterite talade, supine talat, imperative tala)

1. to speak, to talk (make speech)

   Synonym: (less idiomatic) prata

   Han började tala

   He began to speak

   Jag visste inte att hundar kunde tala

   I didn't know dogs could talk

   en talande papegoja

   a talking parrot

   tala med skånsk dialekt

   speak with a Scanian dialect

2. to speak (a language or the like)

   Synonyms: (less idiomatic) prata, (colloquial) snacka

   Talar du spanska?

   Do you speak Spanish?

   tala finlandssvenska

   speak Finland Swedish

3. (somewhat formal) to speak, to talk (to someone)

   Synonyms: prata, (colloquial) snacka

   Jag vill tala med föreståndaren

   I want to speak to the manager

4. to make a speech, to speak

   Synonym: hålla tal

   Kungen talade vid ceremonin

   The King spoke at the ceremony

   Hon talade inför en jättepublik

   She spoke in front of a huge audience

See the usage notes for prata.

• diskutera
• konversera
• prata
• samtala
• småprata
• snacka (colloquial)
• språka
• surra
• säga (“say”)

Borrowed from Samoan tālā.

tala c

1. tala (currency of Samoa)

• tala in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tala in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tala in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• lata

Uncertain. Possibly from either:

• From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talaq.
• From Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”). Possible doublet of estrelya.

Compare Balinese tala and Kapampangan tala.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtalaʔ/ [ˈt̪aː.lɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -alaʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧la

talà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎ)

1. (astronomy, strictly) morning star; any bright star (except the Sun)

   Synonyms: lusero, (Quezon) Talang Batugan

2. (astronomy) star

   Synonyms: bituin, estrelya

3. (astronomy, loosely) any astronomical body (such as a star, a planet, or a comet)
4. (figurative) beautiful woman

   Synonym: paraluman

5. (figurative) celebrity (artist, actor, etc.)

   Synonym: bituin

Derived from Sanskrit ताल (tāla, “palmyra or fan palm tree”) whose leaves were used to write on, according to Potet (2016). Compare Cebuano mantala.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈlaʔ/ [t̪ɐˈlaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧la

talâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎ)

1. record; notes

   Synonyms: listahan, talaan, lista, nota

2. listing; jotting down on a list

   Synonym: pagtatala

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtala/ [ˈt̪aː.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: ta‧la

tala (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜎ)

1. Limnophila rugosa (a type of marshweed used for cooking as an aromatic)

• “tala”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 299

• Taal, alta, alat, taal, lata

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.la]
• Hyphenation: ta‧la

From Proto-Polynesian *tala. Cognates include Hawaiian kala and Samoan tala.

tala

1. story
2. news
3. statement, account
4. rumour, gossip
5. tale, legend
6. novel
7. play

tala

1. (transitive) to tell, narrate

• tala kave

From Proto-Polynesian *tara. Cognates include Tahitian tara and Samoan tala.

tala

1. end of a traditional house with a gable

From Proto-Polynesian *tala. Cognates include Hawaiian kala and Samoan tala.

tala

1. (transitive) to demolish, destroy
2. (transitive) to undo, open

tala

1. (transitive) to change (money)
2. (transitive) to withdraw (money)
3. (transitive) to let a pharmacist make (a drug)

tala

1. (transitive) to dilute

From Proto-Polynesian *tala. Cognates include Maori tara and Samoan tara.

tala

1. thorn, spike

tala

1. (transitive) to strip off using thorns

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 362

tala

1. seagull

tala

1. to draw (a line)

• (third-person singular present/future; second-person singular imperative): tâl
• (first-person singular present/future): talaf

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtala/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈta(ː)la/

tala

1. inflection of talu:
   1. second-person singular imperative
   2. third-person singular present/future literary
   3. first-person singular future colloquial

• IPA^(key): /ˈtala/

tala

1. colloquial form of talaf (“tallest”)

Compare Ternate tola (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪a.l̪a/

tala

1. (transitive) to cut
2. (transitive) to cross (a river)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics

tala

1. far

   Antonym: tapit

tala

1. eye