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Olla
//ˈɒlə// noun
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Noun
- 1 A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
"On top of the counter were three clay jars or ollas. Two of them were empty but the third was covered with the tin lid from a lardpail and the lid was notched to accommodate the handle of an enameled tin dipper."
- 2 leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper wordnet
- 3 A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
- 4 An unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation.
"An olla (which literally means “pot”) is a round, unglazed terra cotta clay pot with a long neck that you fill with water and bury next to your plants. It irrigates in the ground."
- 5 A cinerary urn. Ancient-Rome
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish olla, from Latin ōlla, aulla; akin to Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “pot”), and probably also Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”).
See also for "olla"
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