name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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kula
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name
Meaning 2
A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
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name
Meaning 3
A town, a municipality of Vojvodina, Serbia.
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noun
Meaning 4
A tower, turret or steeple in Southeastern Europe erected during the period of Ottoman domination on the area.
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noun
Meaning 5
A ceremonial exchange system conducted in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, involving the exchange of bracelets and necklaces, and linked to political authority.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
Alternative form of Kulah (“type of rug”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
Etymology
* Slavic origin: as a Czech, Polish, and Slovak surname, see Polish kula (“ball”). * Also as a Czech surname, shortened from Mikuláš, the Czech form of Nicholas. * As a Jewish Belarusian surname, from the placename Kulya.
From Hawaiian Kula.
From Serbo-Croatian Кула /Kula, from кула /kula (“tower, turret”), from Ottoman Turkish قله (kulle).
From a South Slavic language, from Turkish kule, from Persian قله (qolle), from Arabic قُلَّة (qulla, “pinnacle, zenith”).
From a Melanesian language.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Hawaiian: Kula — Translations
- German: Wolfsburg — Translations
- German: Kula — Translations
- Hungarian: Kúla — Translations
- Pannonian Rusyn: Кула (Kula) — Translations
- Serbo-Croatian: Кула — Translations
- Serbo-Croatian: Kula — Translations
- Turkish: Kula — Translations