kala

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?], from Persian قلعه‎ (qal'e), from Arabic قَلْعَة‎ (qalʿa).

• (Tosk) IPA^(key): /kala/

kala f (indefinite plural kala, definite singular kalaja)

1. castle, fortress

kala

1. Romanization of ᬓᬮ
2. Romanization of ᬓᬵᬮ
3. Romanization of ᬓᬮᬵ

kala

1. nothing

kala

1. no, not

kala

1. straw (collective)

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala.

kala (genitive kala, partitive kala)

1. fish

• kalastama
• kalamari
• kalur

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala. Cognates include Northern Sami guolli, Ter Sami kɨllˈe, and Hungarian hal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlɑ/, [ˈkɑlɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlɑ
• Hyphenation: ka‧la

kala

1. fish

   Hauki on kala.

   A pike is a fish.

   Syön usein kalaa.

   I often eat fish.

   Tässä järvessä on paljon kalaa.

   There's lots of fish in this lake.

2. (idiomatic, in locational cases and expressions) fishing (as a personal activity, used with the verbs olla (“to be”) and mennä (“to go”), lähteä (“to leave”), and käydä (“to go and come back”))

   olla kalassa ― to be fishing

   käydä kalassa ― to go fishing (and come back)

   mennä kalaan ― to go fishing

   lähteä kalaan ― to (leave and) go fishing

   lähteä kalalle ― to (leave and) go fishing

   Käytkö usein kalassa?

   Do you often go fishing?

3. (in compounds) seafood

   Mennään kalaravintolaan.

   Let's go to a seafood restaurant.

• kalaisa
• kalastaa
  • kalastaja
  • kalastella
  • kalastus
• Kalat

From Old Norse kala.

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

kala (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative kól, third-person plural past indicative kólu, supine kalið)

1. (impersonal) to become frostbitten

   Mig kól á tám.

   My toes became frostbitten.

• kal

From Malay kala, from Sanskrit काल (kāla, “time”).

kala (plural kala-kala, first-person possessive kalaku, second-person possessive kalamu, third-person possessive kalanya)

1. any member of scorpiones order
2. epoch
3. time
4. (linguistics, grammar) tense

• masa, waktu
• ketika

• kala lampau (“past tense”)

From Malay kala, from Javanese ꦏꦭ (kala, “stinging animal”).

kala (plural kala-kala, first-person possessive kalaku, second-person possessive kalamu, third-person possessive kalanya)

1. (obsolete) scorpion

• kalajengking

Unknown

kala (plural kala-kala, first-person possessive kalaku, second-person possessive kalamu, third-person possessive kalanya)

1. (obsolete) silk

Unknown

kala (plural kala-kala, first-person possessive kalaku, second-person possessive kalamu, third-person possessive kalanya)

1. (obsolete) snare

kala (plural kala-kala, first-person possessive kalaku, second-person possessive kalamu, third-person possessive kalanya)

1. Obsolete spelling of qada

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala

kala (genitive kalan, partitive kallaa)

1. fish

Romanization of ꦏꦭ

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala. Cognates include Northern Sami guolli, Ter Sami kɨllˈe (“fish”), and Hungarian hal.

kala (genitive kalan, partitive kalua)

1. fish

kala

1. 3rd person singular past indicative form of kalt
2. 3rd person plural past indicative form of kalt

From Proto-Finnic *kala.

kala

1. fish

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /kalə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /kala/
• Rhymes: -alə, -lə, -ə

From Sanskrit काल (kāla, “time”).

kala (Jawi spelling کالا‎, plural kala-kala, informal first-person singular possessive kalaku, impolite second-person singular possessive kalamu, third-person singular possessive kalanya)

1. time (inevitable passing of events)
2. time (quantity of availability in time)
3. time (time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc)
4. time (particular moment or hour)
5. time (measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time)
6. time (numerical indication of a particular moment in time)

• masa / ماس‎
• waktu / وقتو‎

From Javanese kala (“stinging animal”).

kala (Jawi spelling کالا‎, plural kala-kala, informal first-person singular possessive kalaku, impolite second-person singular possessive kalamu, third-person singular possessive kalanya)

1. scorpion

From Proto-Germanic *kalaną, whence also Old English calan. Ultimately from an o-grade present of Proto-Indo-European *gel-

kala

1. (impersonal) to freeze

   mik kell

   I freeze; I become frost-bitten

• Icelandic: kala

• kala in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.la/

kala

1. third-person singular present of kalać

From English color.

kala

1. color

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala.

kala

1. fish

• kalankazvatai
• kalankazvatuz
• kalansuug

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “рыба”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala.

kala (genitive kalaa, partitive kalaa)

1. fish

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• "kala" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

From Proto-Finnic *kala, from Proto-Uralic *kala.

• IPA^(key): /kɑlɑ/

kala (genitive kala, partitive kalla)

1. fish

kala

1. to hunt

• Mbugu: kala

• Maarten Mous, The Making of a Mixed Language: The Case of Ma'a/Mbugu

-kála

1. to weigh

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “kala”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “kala (3.9)”