1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Palla in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does palla mean? Is palla a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is palla worth? palla how many points in Words With Friends? What does palla mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for palla

See how to calculate how many points for palla.

Is palla a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word palla is a Scrabble US word. The word palla is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

P3A1L1L1A1

Is palla a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word palla is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

P3A1L1L1A1

Is palla a Words With Friends word?

The word palla is NOT a Words With Friends word.

Our tools

Valid words made from Palla

Jump to...

Results

5-letter words (1 found)

PALLA,

4-letter words (3 found)

ALAP,PAAL,PALL,

3-letter words (6 found)

AAL,ALA,ALL,ALP,LAP,PAL,

2-letter words (4 found)

AA,AL,LA,PA,

You can make 14 words from palla according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of palla

palla aplla plala lpala alpla lapla palla aplla plala lpala alpla lapla pllaa lplaa pllaa lplaa llpaa llpaa allpa lalpa allpa lalpa llapa llapa palal aplal plaal lpaal alpal lapal paall apall paall apall aapll aapll plaal lpaal palal aplal lapal alpal alapl laapl aalpl aalpl laapl alapl palal aplal plaal lpaal alpal lapal paall apall paall apall aapll aapll plaal lpaal palal aplal lapal alpal alapl laapl aalpl aalpl laapl alapl pllaa lplaa pllaa lplaa llpaa llpaa plala lpala palla aplla lapla alpla plala lpala palla aplla lapla alpla llapa llapa lalpa allpa lalpa allpa allap lalap allap lalap llaap llaap alalp laalp aallp aallp laalp alalp alalp laalp aallp aallp laalp alalp llaap llaap lalap allap lalap allap

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word palla. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in palla.

Definitions and meaning of palla

palla

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian palla (“ball”). Doublet of ball.

Noun

palla (uncountable)

  1. A traditional Tuscan ball game played in the street.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin palla. Doublet of pall.

Noun

palla (plural pallae)

  1. (historical) A rectangular piece of cloth worn by ladies in Ancient Rome and fastened with brooches.

Further reading

  • Palla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Aymara

Noun

palla

  1. woman

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan palla, from Latin palea, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Compare Occitan palha, French paille, Spanish paja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpa.ʎə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈpa.ʎa]

Noun

palla f (plural palles)

  1. straw, hay
  2. drinking straw
    Synonym: canya
  3. (of gems, metal) flaw
  4. (of writing) padding

Derived terms

References

  • “palla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “palla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “palla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “palla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese palha (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palea. Cognate with Portuguese palha and Spanish paja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaʎa̝/

Noun

palla f (plural pallas)

  1. (countable) a straw
  2. (uncountable) straw
  3. (uncountable) chaff
  4. (informal, vulgar) a wank

Derived terms

  • espallar
  • palla perra
  • palleiro
  • palloza
  • un palleiro non se fai sen palla

References

  • “palla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “palla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “palla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “palla” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “palla” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian palla (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?), from Latin palla, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalla/
  • Rhymes: -la, -a
  • Hyphenation: pal‧la

Noun

palla (plural palla-palla, first-person possessive pallaku, second-person possessive pallamu, third-person possessive pallanya)

  1. (Catholicism) a cloth used to cover a chalice during services.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpal.la/
  • Rhymes: -alla
  • Hyphenation: pàl‧la

Etymology 1

Uncertain:

  • From Medieval Latin balla, palla, bala, from Frankish *ball, from Proto-Germanic *balluz.
  • From Lombardic *palla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”).
  • Borrowed from Provençal or Occitan pelota, from Latin pila (“ball”).

Noun

palla f (plural palle)

  1. (sports) ball (object used for playing games)
  2. ball (solid or hollow sphere)
  3. (historical, firearms) bullet, shot
    Hypernym: proiettile
  4. (usually in the plural, vulgar) testicles
    Synonyms: (vulgar) coglione, testicolo
  5. (informal, figurative) something dull or boring
  6. (colloquial) lie
    Synonym: bugia
  7. (heraldry) circle-shaped charge
Derived terms
  • pallone
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin palla, of uncertain origin.

Noun

palla f (plural palle)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) palla (cloth worn by ladies)
Related terms
  • pallio

Etymology 3

Perhaps an extension in sense of the above lemma.

Noun

palla f (plural palle)

  1. (Catholicism) a cloth used to cover a chalice during services

Further reading

  • palla1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • palla2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • palla3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”) (akin to pellis (“hide, pelt”)), or possibly a substrate loan.

Noun

palla f (genitive pallae); first declension

  1. A rectangular piece of cloth worn by ladies in Ancient Rome and fastened with brooches.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

  • pallium

Descendants

  • → English: palla (learned)
  • → Italian: palla (learned)
    • → Indonesian: palla
    • → Maltese: palla
  • → Romanian: pală (learned)
  • Proto-Brythonic: *pall
    • Middle Welsh: pall
      • Welsh: pall

Further reading

  • “palla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “palla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • palla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “palla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “palla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

References

Maltese

Etymology

From Italian palla, from Latin palla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpal.la/

Noun

palla f (plural palel)

  1. (Christianity) pallium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • palle (e-infinitive)

Etymology

Related to Traveller Norwegian palla and Swedish palla, both with the same meaning.

Verb

palla (present tense pallar, past tense palla, past participle palla, passive infinitive pallast, present participle pallande, imperative palla/pall)

  1. (slang) to bother to; to have the energy to, to feel up to

Synonyms

  • gidde
  • orke

Quechua

Noun

palla

  1. lady, respected woman
  2. female dancer

Declension

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin palea.

Noun

palla f

  1. (Campidanese) straw

Sicilian

Alternative forms

  • padda

Etymology

From Italian palla (“ball”), see above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalːa/
  • Hyphenation: pal‧la

Noun

palla f (plural palli)

  1. ball

Spanish

Verb

palla

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

Swedish

Etymology 1

Derived from Swedish criminal cant pall (“apple”). Attested since 1898.

Verb

palla (present pallar, preterite pallade, supine pallat, imperative palla)

  1. (colloquial) To scrump; to steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
    Synonyms: stjäla (“steal”), knycka (“nick”)

Etymology 2

Affix of pall +‎ -ar, from stå pall (“stand firm”). Borrowed from Dutch pal staan, from Low German pall staan.

Interjection sense possibly an ellipsis of the negative pallar inte ("do not have energy/stamina/will").

Verb

palla (present pallar, preterite pallade, supine pallat, imperative palla)

  1. (colloquial) To have enough strength, will, or stamina for something. [since 1912]
    Synonyms: (dialectal) gitta, idas, orka, (archaic) tya
Conjugation

Interjection

palla

  1. (colloquial, can be seen as rude) to not have enough strength, will or stamina; to not be bothered to

References

  • palla in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • palla in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • pall in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Source: wiktionary.org