cholla

English

a cholla cactus

Etymology

Spanish cholla, possibly from Old French cholle (“head”), of Germanic origin. Compare keel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔɪ.ə/, enPR: choiʹə
• Rhymes: -ɔɪə

Noun

cholla (plural chollas)

1. Any of several species of cactus in the genus Cylindropuntia, having very spiny, cylindrical stem segments.
   • 1889 January 26, “Archæological camping in Arizona”, in American Architect and Architecture, volume 52, page 43:

     Throughout Arizona the floors of such caves are found covered with a deep bed of chollas.

   • 1890 October, “A Series of Eggs of Palmer's Thrasher”, in The Ornithologist and Oölogist, volume 15, page 155:

     The cholla was two feet high, and six feet in diameter.

   • 2009 February 26, Karen Crouse, “Woods Returns as He Left: A Winner”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     On the front nine, Jones stuck to Woods like a cholla cactus.

Derived terms

• jumping cholla

Translations

cactus

• Navajo: hosh aditsahii
• Panamint: wiyattampü
• Quechua: atuq waqachi
• Spanish: cholla (es) f

See also

• cholla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cylindropuntia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈxʌl̪ˠə/

Noun

cholla

1. Lenited form of colla.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoʝa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈt͡ʃoʝa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈt͡ʃoʎa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈt͡ʃoʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈt͡ʃoʒa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -oʝa

• Rhymes: -oʝa
• Rhymes: -oʎa
• Rhymes: -oʃa
• Rhymes: -oʒa

• Syllabification: cho‧lla

Etymology 1

Possibly from Old French cholle (“head”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *keula (“mace”), earlier "lump, lump of coal," from Proto-Germanic *kulą.

Noun

cholla f (plural chollas)

1. cholla (cactus)
2. (figurative) reason, understanding
3. (colloquial, Honduras) head
4. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) laziness

Etymology 2

Verb

cholla

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

See also

• cholla on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Further reading

• “cholla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Noun

cholla (masculine chollo, Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ)

1. Alternative spelling of chola