Olla in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Olla

You can make 5 words from 'olla' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'olla'
• 3 letters words from 'olla'
• 2 letters words from 'olla'

4 letters words from 'olla'

OLLA 4

3 letters words from 'olla'

ALL 3

2 letters words from 'olla'

AL 2	LA 2
LO 2

Definitions and meaning of olla

olla

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish olla, from Latin olla, aulla; akin to Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “pot”), and probably also Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒlə/

Noun

olla (plural ollas)

1. A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
2. A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
3. A cinerary urn in ancient Rome.

Anagrams

• 'allo, Lola, allo, allo-, lalo

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin olla (“cooking pot”)

Noun

olla f (plural ollas)

1. pot

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “olla”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Estonian

Verb

olla

1. Da-infinitive of olema.

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Finnish

(index ol)

Etymology

From several different roots.

• The normal forms in ol- derive from Proto-Finnic *oldak, from Proto-Uralic *wole-. Cognates include Estonian olema, Hungarian volt.
  • The forms on and ovat are either irregular forms, from the same root as oma (and possibly olla, if a frequentative derivation of that root) or from a third root with possible links to Samoyedic. Cognates are found in Karelian on, Livonian um, Veps om, Votic on, Hungarian van, Võro om/um and ommaq/ummaq.
    • ovat further likely has the standard 3rd person plural -vat in the ending, but could originate from earlier *omat.
• The potential forms in lie- derive from Proto-Finnic *leedäk, from Proto-Uralic *le- (“to become”). Cognate with Karelian lienöy, Livonian līdõ, Veps linda, Hungarian lenni/legyek, Northern Sami leat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈolːɑˣ/, [ˈo̞lːɑ(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -olːɑ
• Syllabification: ol‧la

Verb

olla

1. (copulative) to be (indicating that the subject and the complement of the verb form the same thing)

2. (intransitive) to be (occupy a place)

3. (copulative) to be, constitute, make up, form

4. (intransitive, adessive + 3rd person singular + ~) to have; to own, to possess

   Synonyms: omistaa (to own), omata (discouraged in most cases)

5. (intransitive, inessive + 3rd person singular + ~) to have, to possess (as a feature or capability, as opposed to simple possession; almost always for inanimate subjects)

6. (intransitive, ~ (olemassa)) to exist (the subject often indefinite = in partitive case -> verb in 3rd-pers. singular)

7. (intransitive) to behave, act (as if...) (when followed by a subordinate clause beginning with (ikään,) kuin, requiring conditional mood)

8. (transitive, auxiliary) to have (a verb to build active present perfect tense and active past perfect tense, taking active past participle, ending -nut/-nyt (singular) or -neet (pl.))

9. (transitive, auxiliary) to have (a verb to build impersonal simple past tense, impersonal passive present perfect tense and impersonal passive past perfect tense, taking passive past participle, ending -tu/-ty)

10. (intransitive, 3rd person singular) (there) be

11. (intransitive, + genitive + 3rd person singular + passive present participle) to have to do something, must do something; be obliged/forced to do something

    that same in passive: nominative/accusative + 3rd-pers. singular + passive present participle, -tava/-tävä = to have to be done, must be done.

12. (transitive) to play a children's game

    Synonym: leikkiä

Usage notes

• In the sense “to have” the verb olla is always in third person singular form and the person who has something is indicated with adessive case. Grammatically the thing owned is the subject-complement of the sentence:

• Same applies through all tenses, infinitives and participles (where they make sense), e.g.

• The meaning "there be" is rarely used without adverbials (such as those describing a location); it is more common to use olla olemassa in such cases.
• olla (+ vähällä) + infinitive = to almost/nearly (do something accidental, harmful, wrong or fateful).

• olla + essive plural form of an active present participle (-vina/-vinä) + possessive suffix = to be supposed to do, pretend to do, put on airs of doing, affect:

• olla + fifth infinitive + possessive suffix by person = to be about to do (when something happens preventing it):

• olla määrä (“to be to, to be due to”)

• genitive + 3rd-pers. singular + pakko + infinitive = to must, have to, be forced to:

• genitive + olisi (conditional) parasta + infinitive = had better + infinitive:

• olkoonkin(, että...) (“never mind (that...)”)
• (interjection): olkoon menneeksi (“(okay,...) why not, go ahead, (colloquial) what the hell”)
• olla kunnossa (“to be in shape; to be in order”)

  If used without an adjective, olla kunnossa is a positive expression, and one might as well say olla hyvässä kunnossa (to be in good shape/order):

Conjugation

Derived terms

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Icelandic

Etymology

From English ollie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔlːa/
• Rhymes: -ɔlːa

Verb

olla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ollaði, supine ollað)

1. (skateboarding) to ollie, perform an ollie

Conjugation

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Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oldak, from Proto-Uralic *wole-.

Verb

olla

1. be

Conjugation

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Irish

Alternative forms

• olna (superseded)

Noun

olla f

1. genitive singular of olann (“wool”)

Mutation

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin olla, from Proto-Italic *aukslā, from Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷsleh₂, Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷ- (“cooking pot”).

Noun

olla f (plural olle)

1. earthen jar
2. cooking pot

Anagrams

• allo

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Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oldak, from Proto-Uralic *wole-.

Verb

olla

1. to be

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Latin

Alternative forms

• aula, aulla, ōla

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *aukslā, from Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷsleh₂, Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷ- (“cooking pot”) (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Old Armenian ակութ (akutʿ), Albanian anë, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós), Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz and subsequently Old Norse and Old English ofn (English oven).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoːl.la/, [ˈoːl.lʲa]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈol.la/, [ˈɔl.la]

Noun

ōlla f (genitive ōllae); first declension

1. pot, jar

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• ollārius

Descendants

References

• olla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• olla in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 2. OLLA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 1 olla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,077/1”
• olla in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• olla in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “olla (ōla)” on page 1,246/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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Old Dutch

Adjective

olla

1. nominative plural of al

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈol͈a/

Noun

olla f

1. genitive singular of olann

Mutation

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Old Norse

Verb

olla

1. first-person singular past indicative active of valda

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ōllam, accusative singular of ōlla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoʎa/

Noun

olla f (plural ollas)

1. pot
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 17r. a.

Descendants

• Spanish: olla

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish olla, from Latin olla, from Proto-Italic *aukslā, from Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷsleh₂, Proto-Indo-European *Hukʷ- (“cooking pot”)

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈoʎa/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈoɟ͡ʝa/, [ˈoʝa]

Noun

olla f (plural ollas)

1. pot, pan; kettle (vessel used for cooking food)
2. stew (dish cooked by stewing)
3. pool, whirlpool

Derived terms

Related terms

• ollero

Anagrams

• Lalo, Lola

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Swedish

Etymology

Derived from ollon (“glans”).

Verb

olla

1. (vulgar) to touch with one's glans (tip of the penis)

Conjugation

Anagrams

• Lola

Source: wiktionary.org

• a wide-mouthed pot or jar.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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