"cola" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkəʊ.lə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkoʊlə/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-cola.wav [US] Forms: colas [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊlə Etymology: From a Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known, and popularized the spelling with c instead of k. Etymology templates: {{der|en|nic}} Niger-Congo, {{cog|tem|kola}} Temne kola, {{cog|mnk|kola}} Mandinka kola Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cola (countable and uncountable, plural colas)
  1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Mallow family plants Synonyms (the plant or nut): kola
    Sense id: en-cola-en-noun-UYyO4ik6 Disambiguation of Mallow family plants: 42 36 3 19 Disambiguation of 'the plant or nut': 74 26
  2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Beverages Categories (lifeform): Mallow family plants Translations (drink): كُولَا (kūlā) [feminine] (Arabic), كولا (kola) [Egyptian-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), كولا (kōla) [North-Levantine-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), كولا (kōla) [South-Levantine-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), կոլա (kola) (Armenian), ко́ла (kóla) [feminine] (Belarusian), ко́ла (kóla) [feminine] (Bulgarian), cola [feminine] (Catalan), 可樂 (Chinese Cantonese), 可乐 (ho² lok⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 可樂 (Chinese Mandarin), 可乐 (kělè) (Chinese Mandarin), kola [feminine] (Czech), cola [common-gender] (Danish), cola [masculine] (Dutch), kolao (Esperanto), kola [feminine] (Faroese), kolajuoma (Finnish), coca [masculine] (French), კოლა (ḳola) (Georgian), Cola [feminine, neuter] (German), κόλα (kóla) [feminine] (Greek), 可樂 (Hakka Chinese), 可乐 (khó-là) (Hakka Chinese), קוֹלָה (qola) [feminine] (Hebrew), कोला (kolā) [masculine] (Hindi), kóla (Hungarian), コーラ (kōra) (Japanese), 콜라 (kolla) (Korean), ко́ла (kóla) [feminine] (Macedonian), кола (kola) (Mongolian), کولا (kolâ) (Persian), cola [feminine] (Polish), kola [feminine] (Polish), cola [feminine] (Portuguese), cola [feminine] (Romanian), ко́ла (kóla) [feminine] (Russian), còc [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), кола [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kola [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kola [feminine] (Slovak), cola [feminine] (Spanish), cola [common-gender] (Swedish), kola [common-gender] (Swedish), โคล่า (koo-lâa) (Thai), kola (Turkish), ко́ла (kóla) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-cola-en-noun-TyT5bfLZ Disambiguation of Beverages: 16 73 4 8 Disambiguation of Mallow family plants: 42 36 3 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, North Levantine Arabic terms with redundant script codes, South Levantine Arabic terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 80 3 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 17 77 3 3 Disambiguation of North Levantine Arabic terms with redundant script codes: 17 83 Disambiguation of South Levantine Arabic terms with redundant script codes: 18 82 Disambiguation of 'drink': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: champagne cola, cola chicken
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈkəʊ.lə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkoʊlə/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-cola.wav [US]
Rhymes: -əʊlə Etymology: See colon. Etymology templates: {{m|en|colon}} colon Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} cola
  1. (dated) plural of colon Tags: dated, form-of, plural Form of: colon
    Sense id: en-cola-en-noun-~vpGIY~Z Categories (other): English plurals in -a with singular in -um or -on
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ˈkəʊ.lə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkoʊlə/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-cola.wav [US] Forms: colas [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊlə Head templates: {{en-noun}} cola (plural colas)
  1. A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant. Categories (lifeform): Mallow family plants
    Sense id: en-cola-en-noun-QNjuIBoK Disambiguation of Mallow family plants: 42 36 3 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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          "lang": "Hebrew",
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          "word": "コーラ"
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          "word": "còc"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "drink",
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      "roman": "ho² lok⁶",
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      "code": "hak",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "drink",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "kělè",
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "drink",
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
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      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "kola"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "kolajuoma"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "drink",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "coca"
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    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳola",
      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "კოლა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "neuter"
      ],
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      "code": "el",
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      "roman": "kóla",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "κόλα"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "qola",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "kolā",
      "sense": "drink",
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "kóla"
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    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kōra",
      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "コーラ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "kolla",
      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "콜라"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kóla",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
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      "word": "кола"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kolâ",
      "sense": "drink",
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cola"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "cola"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "kóla",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ко́ла"
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      "code": "gd",
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      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "còc"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "кола"
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      "code": "sh",
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "kola"
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      "code": "sk",
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      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "kola"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "kola"
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      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
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      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "โคล่า"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "drink",
      "word": "kola"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kóla",
      "sense": "drink",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.