talla

talla (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of tella (“African beer”).

• Allat, at all, atall

talla

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈta.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈta.ʎa]

Deverbal from tallar. Compare French taille.

talla f (plural talles)

1. (clothing) size

talla

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

• “talla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “talla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “talla”, 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

talla

1. genitive singular of tald

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlːɑ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): tal‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): tal‧la

From Proto-Finnic *talla, probably from the same root as tallata, with a possible secondary Germanic origin (akin to that of talla, etymology 2).

talla

1. sole (bottom or lower part of anything on which it rests)
2. runner (smooth strip on which a sledge runs)
3. (slang) gas pedal, acceleration pedal, accelerator, throttle (pedal)

   Talla pohjaan!

   Floor it!

• (gas pedal): kaasupoljin

• “2. talla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Borrowed from Swedish stall.

talla

1. (music) bridge (piece on a stringed instrument that supports the strings)

• kielisilta

• talli

• “1. talla”, 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 1 July 2023

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese talla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Back-formation from tallar. Compare Portuguese talha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɟa/ [ˈt̪a̠.ɟɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɟa
• Hyphenation: ta‧lla

talla f (plural tallas)

1. carving, make, cut
2. carving, sculpture

   Synonym: escultura

3. notch
4. height, stature

   Synonyms: altura, estatura

5. size
6. first cut practiced to a tree when cutting down it
7. notched wood strip used to codify debts or obligations
8. ditch

   Synonym: birta

9. (archaic) tax

   Synonyms: imposto, taxa

talla

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

• tallar
• tallo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “talla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “talla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “talla”, 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), “talla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “talla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /tàl.là/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tàl.lə̀]

tàllà m (plural tàllàce-tàllàce, possessed form tàllàn)

1. Hawking goods for sale.
2. advertising

From Proto-Finnic *talla. Cognates include Finnish talla and Estonian tald.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlːɑ/, [ˈtɑɫː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlːɑ/, [ˈtɑɫːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlː, -ɑlːɑ
• Hyphenation: tal‧la

talla

1. insole

Declension of talla (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	talla	tallat
genitive	tallan	talloin
partitive	tallaa	talloja
illative	tallaa	talloi
inessive	tallaas	tallois
elative	tallast	talloist
allative	tallalle	talloille
adessive	tallaal	talloil
ablative	tallalt	talloilt
translative	tallaks	talloiks
essive	tallanna, tallaan	talloinna, talloin
exessive1)	tallant	talloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• (diminutive) tallukkain

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 570

From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂l- (“to grow; young animal”), like Latin talea (“scion”).

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

talla f (genitive tallae); first declension

1. a peel or coat of an onion

First-declension noun.

• “talla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "talla", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

talla n

1. definite plural of tall

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰal̪ˠə/

talla m (genitive singular tallachan, plural tallaichean)

1. hall
2. rock

• Syllabification: ta‧lla

Borrowed from French taille, with some senses taken from Catalan talla or Italian taglia.

talla f (plural tallas)

1. size

   Synonyms: tamaño, porte

2. clothing size
3. height

   Synonym: altura

4. carving

   Synonym: escultura

5. (Chile, colloquial) joke

   Synonyms: broma, chiste

talla

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

• “talla”, 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

talla (present tallar, preterite tallade, supine tallat, imperative talla)

1. (colloquial) to (lightly) touch (something that ought not to be touched)

   Sluta talla på fönsterrutan! Det blir fingeravtryck.

   Stop touching the window pane! It'll leave fingerprints.

2. (colloquial) to grope (touch sexually), usually against someone's will

   Synonyms: kladda, tafsa, (molest) antasta

• talla in Svensk ordbok (SO)