halla

halla (countable and uncountable, plural hallas or hallot or halloth or hallos)

1. Alternative form of challah

• IPA^(key): [haɫ̪a]

halla f

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

halla

1. genitive/partitive/illative singular of hall

From Proto-Finnic *halla, from earlier *šalna, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Lithuanian šalnà and Latvian salna).^[1] Cognates include Estonian hall and Northern Sami suoldni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlːɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): hal‧la

halla

1. frost, killing frost (below-freezing temperature that occurs at night during the growing season)
2. frost damage (damage caused by such frost)

   alavilla mailla hallan vaara ― risk of frost damage in low-lying areas

3. (figuratively) damage, harm

   tehdä hallaa ― to do damage, do harm

• “halla”, 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 2023-07-02

• Allah

From Old Norse hallr (“slant, slope”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhatla/
• Rhymes: -atla
• Homophone: Halla

halla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hallaði, supine hallað)

1. (intransitive) to slant
2. (transitive, with dative) to cause to slant, lay or let down (into a slanting position, or to rest)
3. (reflexive, with dative) to go to sleep, take a nap

halla

1. indefinite genitive plural of höll

From Proto-Finnic *halla. Cognates include Finnish halla and Estonian hall.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlːɑ/, [ˈhɑɫː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlːɑ/, [ˈhɑɫːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlː, -ɑlːɑ
• Hyphenation: hal‧la

halla

1. frost
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 37:

     Hanhet lentäät - hallat tulloot.

     The geese fly - winter season [lit. "frosts"] is coming.

Declension of halla (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	halla	hallat
genitive	hallan	halloin
partitive	hallaa	halloja
illative	hallaa	halloi
inessive	hallaas	hallois
elative	hallast	halloist
allative	hallalle	halloille
adessive	hallaal	halloil
ablative	hallalt	halloilt
translative	hallaks	halloiks
essive	hallanna, hallaan	halloinna, halloin
exessive1)	hallant	halloint
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.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 42

From Middle Irish halla, borrowed from Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu, from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhal̪ˠə/

halla m (genitive singular halla, nominative plural hallaí)

1. hall
2. (usually in the plural) mansion
3. study hall
4. public building
5. hallway

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “halla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “halla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “halla”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “halla”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• haulla, hala

Borrowed from Frankish *hallu (“large room, hall”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhal.la/, [ˈhälːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.la/, [ˈälːä]

halla f (genitive hallae); first declension^[1][2] (Medieval Latin)

1. house, dwelling
2. court, forecourt
3. palace, large residence
4. market hall

First-declension noun.

• Old French: halle, hale
  • Middle French: halle
    • French: halle
      • → Turkish: hal
  • Norman: halle (Jèrriais)
  • → Middle English: hale
    • English: hale (dialectal)

halla f sg

1. definite singular of hall (“hall”)

halla n pl

1. definite plural of hall (“slope, sloping terrain”)

halla

1. accusative/genitive plural of hallr

halla

1. inflection of hallr:
   1. strong feminine accusative singular
   2. strong masculine accusative plural
   3. weak feminine/neuter nominative singular
   4. weak masculine/neuter accusative/dative/genitive singular

• Homophones: haya, aya (in dialects with yeísmo)

halla

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