gala

From French gala, or directly from that word's etymon, which is either Italian gala,[1] or Spanish gala,[2] both meaning "festive occasion", and derived from Old French gale (“rejoicing”). (The French word likely kept the final -a to avoid homophony with gale (“scabies”).) Ultimately cognate to gallant and hence probably from Frankish *wala (“good, well”).[1][2]

• Rhymes: -ɑːlə

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːlə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡælə/, /ˈɡeɪlə/, /ˈɡɑːlə/

gala (not comparable)

1. Celebratory; festive.

gala (plural galas)

1. (uncountable) Pomp, show, or festivity.
2. (countable) A showy and festive party.

• gala dress
• gala pie

Sumerian 𒍑𒆪 (gala), cognate to Akkadian 𒍑𒆪 (kalû).

Sumerian statuette of two galas found in the temple of Inanna at Mari.

gala (plural galas)

1. (historical) A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.
   • 2008, Uri Gabbay, The Akkadian word for "third gender" / the kalû (gala) once again, in Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18-22, 2005 (edited by Robert D. Biggs, Jennie Myers, Martha Tobi Roth), page 50:

     (6) Some galas/kalûs are mentioned in Pre-Sargonic and Old Babylonian texts in connection with classes of women, maids, and ḫarimtu-women.

     (7) The gala is sometimes mentioned in the same context with other functionaries [...]

• Gaal, agal, alga

• Hyphenation: ga‧la

gala

1. a gala; a ball
2. money thrown or pinned at the married couple in a money dance

• laag, laga

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gala n (plural gala's, diminutive galaatje n)

1. ball (formal dance)

From Old Norse gala.

gala (third person singular past indicative gól, third person plural past indicative gólu, supine galið)

1. to crow (of a chicken)

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• Homophones: galas, galât

gala

1. third-person singular past historic of galer

From Old Norse gala, from Proto-Germanic *galaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːla/
• Rhymes: -aːla

gala (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative galaði, supine galað)
gala (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative gól, third-person plural past indicative gólum, supine galið)

1. (intransitive, of a rooster) to crow
   • Matthew 26:74 (Icelandic, English 1 and 2)

     En hann sór og sárt við lagði, að hann þekkti ekki manninn. Um leið gól hani.

     Then he began to call down curses on himself and he swore to them, "I don't know the man!" Immediately a rooster crowed.

2. (intransitive) to cry, to scream

Originally a strong verb, but now most usually weak; the strong conjugation is mostly archaic or poetic, and is especially rare in the present tense.

• (scream): orga

• gaggalagú

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡal̪ˠə]

gala

1. nominative plural of gal

From Medieval Latin, Latinized form of Frankish *wala (“good, well”), from Proto-Germanic *wal-, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaː.la], /ˈɡala/

gala f (plural gale)

1. bow (ornament on a dress etc)
2. bow tie (large)
3. frill, flounce, ruche (guarnizione di trine o stoffa increspata)
4. roche, ruching, ruffle

• frangia
• guarnitura
• frappa
• balza
• volant

gala m (invariable)

1. gala
2. festivity

• pompa
• pompa magna
• fasto
• magnificenza
• sontuosità

• alga

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡala/

gala

1. not

   Gala anukwali. - I do not know.

• gala wala

gala

1. no

• laga

• Gunter Senft (1986), Kilivila: the Language of the Trobriand Islanders. Berlin • New York • Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 223. →ISBN

gala m

1. genitive singular form of gals

gala

1. brass

• gale

From Old Norse gala.

• IPA^(key): /²ɡɑːlɑ/

gala (present tense gjel, past tense gol, past participle gale, present participle galande, imperative gal)

1. to crow (to make the sound of a cuckoo or a rooster)

• “gala” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *galaną, whence also Old English galan, Old Saxon galan, Old High German galan. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, charm away”).

gala

1. to sing
2. to crow
3. to chant (spells)

• galdr
• hjala

From Old Norse gala, from Proto-Germanic *galaną.

gala

1. to sing (of birds)
2. to crow (of roosters)
3. to charm, to enchant

• Swedish: gala

• From French gala, from Italian gala.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.la/

gala f

1. gala (festivity)
2. costume for gala, formal dress

• gala in Polish dictionaries at PWN

gala f (plural galas)

1. gala (showy and festive party)

gala

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of galar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of galar

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡala/

From Latin Gallus (“Gaulish”).

gala

1. Feminine singular of adjective galo.

From Old French gale (“rejoicing”). Ultimately cognate to gallant and hence probably from Frankish *wala (“good, well”).

gala f (plural galas)

1. gala
2. elegant dress, male clothes, specially those used in a gala

• alga

gala c

1. gala; festival

From Old Swedish gala, from Old Norse gala, from Proto-Germanic *galaną.

gala (present gal, preterite gol, supine galit, imperative gal)

1. to crow; to make a sound characteristic of a rooster

   förrän hanen har galit ... Och i detsamma gol hanen ... Förrän hanen gal

   before the cock crow ... And immediately the cock crew ... Before the cock crow (Matthew 26:34, 74, 75)

• galning
• gola
• hanegäll

• laga

gala

1. Soft mutation of cala.