кала

Uncertain. Possibly related to Proto-Mongolic *kelen (“tongue, language”), or alternatively inherited from Proto-Turkic *kẹle- (“to woo, court, ask, beg, message”) (compare Bashkir кәләш (käläş, “bride”) and калаҫнӑ хӗр (kalaśnă h̬ĕr, “betrothed girl, fiancée”)).

кала • (kala)

1. to say, to tell
2. to recite
3. to deliver (a speech, a toast, etc.)
4. to pronounce
5. to play, perform (on a musical instrument)
6. to smell (of)
7. to be enough (of spices in a dish)

• калав (kalav)
• калаҫ (kalaś)
• калаҫу (kalaś̬u)

• “кала”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎ (in Russian-Chuvash, Chuvash-Russian), 1996.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaɫa]

кала • (kala) f

1. arum

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaɫə]
• IPA^(key): [kɐˈɫorʲɪə] (phonetic respelling: кало́риа)

ка́ла • (kála) m inan

1. genitive singular of кал (kal)

кала • (kala)

1. city

Čumakajev A. E., editor (2018), “кала”, in Altajsko-russkij slovarʹ [Altaic–Russian Dictionary], Gorno-Altaysk: NII altaistiki im. S.S. Surazakova, →ISBN

From Tat kələ.

кала • (kala)

1. great, major, big
2. elder

• Gukasjan, Vorošil (1974), “кала”, in Удинско-азербайджанско-русский словарь [Udi–Azerbaijani–Russian Dictionary], Baku: Academy Press, page 131
• Schulze, Wolfgang (2015), “Aspects of Udi-Iranian Language Contact”, in Uwe Bläsing, Victoria Arakelova and Matthias Weinreich, editors, Studies on Iran and the Caucasus: In honour of Garnik Asatrian, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, page 387 of 373–401