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Learned borrowing from Latin gula (“throat, gullet”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡjuːlə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡ(j)ulə/
• Homophone: gular (non-rhotic)
• Rhymes: -uːlə
• Hyphenation: gul‧a

gula (plural gulas or gulae)

1. The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.
2. (zoology) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.
3. (architecture) A capping moulding; a cymatium.

• gular

• Agul, Gaul, ugal

From Sanskrit गुल (gula​, “unrefined sugar, molasses”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡula/
• Hyphenation: gu‧la

gula

1. sugar (sucrose from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀da.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɽa/

-gula (infinitive kugúla)

1. to buy

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -gulira
  • Causative: -gulitsa
  • Negative: -sagula
  • Passive: -gulidwa
  • Reduplicative: -gulagula
  • Repetitive: -gulanso
  • Stative: -guka

• IPA^(key): /kula/

gula

1. koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

   Synonym: gulamany

• → English: koala

• Troy, Jakelin (2019) [1994], The Sydney Language‎^[2], 2nd edition, Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press, →ISBN, page 43

gula

1. fork

• IPA^(key): /ɡú.làː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɡʷʊ́.làː]

gulā̀ f (plural gulōlī, possessed form gulàr̃)

1. a kind of drumstick with a large head (for beating drums)

• firya
• makaɗi

From Sanskrit गुल (gula​, “unrefined sugar, molasses”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡula/
• Hyphenation: gu‧la

gula

1. sugar (sucrose from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink)

From gulur (“yellow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʏːla/
• Rhymes: -ʏːla

gula f (genitive singular gulu, no plural)

1. jaundice

Inherited from Malay gula, from Sanskrit गुल (gula, “unrefined sugar, molasses​”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡula/ [ˈɡu.la]

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• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: gu‧la

gula (uncountable)

1. sugar

• “gula”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

gula

1. romanization of ꦒꦸꦭ

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuːla]

gula

1. sugar

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019), “gula”, in Lamboya word list‎^[3], Leiden: LexiRumah

Uncertain.

• Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel-^[1] or *gʷelh₁- (“throat”),^[2] with assumed cognates in Sanskrit गल (gala, “throat, neck”), Old Armenian կուլ- (kul-), Russian глотка (glotka, “throat”), Persian گلو (galu, “throat”), and Northern Kurdish gewrî, gerû (“throat”). Kroonen reconstructs *gʷlh₁-eh₂.
• However, De Vaan doubts that *gʷel- can phonetically give rise to Latin gul-.^[1] See gluttō (“glutton”) for more.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡuː.la]

gula f (genitive gulae); first declension

1. (anatomy) gullet, throat, palate

   Synonyms: faucēs, rūmen, frūmen, guttur

2. gluttony, greediness

First-declension noun.

• gulōsus
• dēgulō

• gluttō

• “gula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Sanskrit गुल (gula, “unrefined sugar, molasses”). The Sanskrit equivalent is मधुरं (madhuraṃ, “sugar”).

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈɡulə/ [ˈɡu.lə]
  • Rhymes: -ulə, -lə, -ə

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈɡula/ [ˈɡu.la]
  • Rhymes: -ula, -la, -a
• Hyphenation: gu‧la

gula (Jawi spelling ݢولا, plural gula)

1. sugar (sucrose from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink)

   Synonym: sakar

• > Indonesian: gula (inherited)

• "gula" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Cognate with Swahili -ugua.

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

-gula

1. to be sick/ill

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈkula/

gula

1. inflection of gullat:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

• gule (for the verbs)

From gul (“gust of wind”).

gula (present tense gular, past tense gula, past participle gula, passive infinitive gulast, present participle gulande, imperative gula/gul)

1. to blow (slowly)

From gul (“yellow”).

gula (present tense gular, past tense gula, past participle gula, passive infinitive gulast, present participle gulande, imperative gula/gul)

1. to yellow

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gula f

1. definite singular of gule

• “gula” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Sanskrit गुल (gula, “unrefined sugar, molasses​”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡu.la/
• Rhymes: -la
• Hyphenation: gu‧la

gula

1. sugar
2. syrup

• Javanese: ꦒꦸꦭ (gula)
• → Balinese: ᬕᬸᬮ (gula)

• "gula" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

gula f (genitive gulu)

1. alternative form of gola

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gula

1. inflection of gulr:
   1. strong feminine accusative singular
   2. strong masculine accusative plural
   3. weak masculine oblique singular
   4. weak feminine nominative singular
   5. weak neuter singular

gula

1. indefinite genitive plural of gul

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “gula”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: gu‧la
• Homophone: Gula

A variant of kula.

gula f

1. (colloquial) bump (swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury)

gula f (male equivalent gularz)

1. (Poznań, Kuyavia, Far Masovian, Kolno) female turkey (bird)

   Alternative form: guła

   Synonym: indyczka

gula

1. (Far Masovian) used to call turkeys

   Synonyms: gulda, gulu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gula m animal

1. genitive/accusative singular of gul

• gula in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gula in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oskar Kolberg (1867), “gula”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894), “gula”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 109
• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “gule”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 199

Learned borrowing from Latin gula. Doublet of gola.

• Rhymes: -ulɐ
• Hyphenation: gu‧la

gula f (plural gulas)

1. gluttony

• gulodice
• guloso

• “gula”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “gula”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

gula

1. fruit

From Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).

gula f (plural gulas)

1. (anatomy) throat
2. (Surmiran) desire, craving, appetite, lust, pleasure, fancy

• (Puter, Vallader) gulacotschen
• (Surmiran) gulard

Borrowed from Latin gula. Compare the inherited doublet gola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡula/ [ˈɡu.la]
• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: gu‧la

gula f (plural gulas)

1. gluttony (habit of eating in excess)

   Synonym: glotonería

2. gourmandizing

• “gula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Ultimately from Sanskrit गुल (gula).

gula (Sundanese script ᮌᮥᮜ)

1. sugar

Cognate with Swahili -ugua.

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

-gula

1. to be sick/ill

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /²ɡʉː.ˌla/
• Rhymes: -²ʉːla

From Old Norse gulr (“yellow”), similar to Faroese gule.

gula

1. inflection of gul:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Nominalization of gul (“yellow”), perhaps from expressions like "det gula i ägget" (the yellow [stuff] in the egg). Compare the etymology of English yolk.

gula c

1. (countable, uncountable) yolk (the yellow of an egg)

   Synonym: äggula

   gulan och vitan

   the yolk and [the] white

• “gula”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “gula”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “gula”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-gʊ̀da.

-gula (infinitive kugula)

1. to buy
2. to sell
3. to barter

• -gulana (“to exchange”)
• -guliska (“to sell”)
• -gulizga (“to sell”)

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[4], Central Africana Limited, page 36

• IPA^(key): /ɡuˈla/

gula (Nisheigram)

1. fat

gula (Nisheigram)

1. terrace

Cognate with Swahili -ugua.

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

-gula

1. to be sick/ill

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Cognate with Swahili -ugua.

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

-gula

1. (intransitive) to be sick/ill
2. (transitive) to skim/scrape together
3. (intransitive) to lean, to slant

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “gula”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “gula (6.3)”

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