قولا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قوله (kula; kola)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kula (“light yellow, brown”); cognate with Chuvash хула (hula), Mongolian хул (xul), Turkmen qula and Uzbek qula.

Adjective

قولا • (kula)

1. (of a horse) dun or sorrel

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Descendants

• Turkish: kula

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kula1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2825
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 989
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spadiceus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1577
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قولا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3801
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kula”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1495a

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian colla.

Noun

قولا • (kola)

1. starch for clothes that are required to look clean and shiny

   Synonym: (starch) نشاسته (nişasta)

Descendants

• Turkish: kola

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kola1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2714
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قولا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[5], Constantinople: Mihran, page 989
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kola2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قولا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1495a