name
Meaning 1
The Kola Peninsula.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
kola
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/ˈkoʊlə/
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rhymes with -əʊlə
name
Meaning 2
A river on the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.
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name
Meaning 3
A town on the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.
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name
Meaning 4
A surname.
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noun
Meaning 5
A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
A nut of this tree.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
Alternative form of cola (“drink made with kola nut flavoring”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable, dated, rare, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Daba, Musgoi
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Broader terms: Biu-Mandara
noun
Meaning 9
tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: kola nut, kola nut tree, goora nut, Cola acuminata
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nut tree
History
Etymology
From Russian Ко́ла (Kóla).
Presumably from a West African language. Compare Hausa gōr̃ò, Bambara goro, Temne kola, Mandinka kolo (“kola nut”).
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: Kuola — peninsula in Russia — see also Kola Peninsula
- Russian: Ко́ла (Kóla) — peninsula in Russia — see also Kola Peninsula
- Russian: Ко́ла (Kóla) — river in Russia
- Finnish: Kuola — town in Russia
- Russian: Ко́ла (Kóla) — town in Russia
- Northern Sami: Guoládat — town in Russia
- Skolt-Sami: Kuâlõk — town in Russia
- Catalan: cola — tree
- Czech: kola — tree
- Danish: kola — tree
- Dutch: cola — tree
- Edo: ẹvbẹe — tree
- Finnish: koolapuu — tree
- Greek: κόλα (kóla) — tree
- Hindi: कोला (kolā) — tree
- Hungarian: kóladió — tree
- Ido: kolao — tree
- Japanese: コーラ (kōra) — tree
- Japanese: コラ (kora) — tree
- Japanese: コラノキ (kora-no-ki) — tree
- Japanese: ヒメコラノキ (hime-kora-no-ki) — tree
- Japanese: ヒメコラ (hime-kora) — tree
- Romanian: cola — tree
- Russian: ко́ла (kóla) — tree
- Serbo-Croatian: кола — tree
- Serbo-Croatian: kola — tree
- Slovene: kola — tree
- Spanish: cola — tree
- Swahili: mkola — tree