From Ottoman Turkish قولا (“id.”), from Italian colla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɫ/, [ˈkɔɫ]

koll m (definite kolli)

1. starch (laundry stiffener)

• amidon (“starch (specifically as organic matter)”)
• niseshte (“starch (in general)”)

• “koll”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

From Proto-Brythonic *koll, from Proto-Celtic *koslos, from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos. Cognate with Irish and Scottish Gaelic coll, Manx coull, and Welsh cyll.

koll (collective, singulative kollen f)

1. hazel trees

From Proto-Finnic *koljoi.

koll (genitive kolli, partitive kolli)

1. bugaboo, bugbear (a vague supernatural being, malevolent spirit)
2. (colloquial) booger, boogie (dried up lump of tat on the nose)

Declension of koll (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		koll	kollid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	kolli
genitive			kollide
partitive		kolli	kolle kollisid
illative		kolli kollisse	kollidesse kollesse
inessive		kollis	kollides kolles
elative		kollist	kollidest kollest
allative		kollile	kollidele kollele
adessive		kollil	kollidel kollel
ablative		kollilt	kollidelt kollelt
translative		kolliks	kollideks kolleks
terminative		kollini	kollideni
essive		kollina	kollidena
abessive		kollita	kollideta
comitative		kolliga	kollidega

• koll in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

koll

1. indefinite accusative singular of kollur

Deverbal from kolla.

koll c

1. (colloquial) a look, a check, an inspection
2. (colloquial, uncountable) track, watch, control, grasp (a good "watch" on something, concrete or abstract, sometimes with implied control)

   att hålla koll på sin ekonomi

   to keep track of one's finances / (by implication) to keep one's finances in order

   Håll koll på hunden medan jag är borta!

   Keep an eye on the dog while I'm away!

   ha bra koll på ett ämnesområde

   have a good grasp of a subject area

   Han har noll koll

   He is clueless ("noll koll" (zero koll) is idiomatic)

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

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