urla

From Old Irish airla, urla, orla (“hair of the head, lock, tress”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɾˠl̪ˠə/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈuːɾˠl̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɾˠl̪ˠə/

urla m (genitive singular urla, nominative plural urlaí)

1. lock of hair, forelock
2. eaves (of house)
3. butt, end (of shaft); haft, handle

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 80

urla

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

• Lura, Ural

Inherited from Latin ululō, ultimately from a reduplicated Proto-Indo-European imitative root.

• IPA^(key): /urˈla/

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a urla (third-person singular present urlă, past participle urlat) 1st conj.

1. to yell, roar, howl, bawl

   Synonyms: răcni, rage, striga, țipa

• urlător