"cholla" meaning in Spanish

See cholla in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃoʝa/, [ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa], /ˈt͡ʃoʝa/ (note: most of Spain and Latin America), [ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa] (note: most of Spain and Latin America), /ˈt͡ʃoʎa/ (note: rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines), [ˈt͡ʃo.ʎa] (note: rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines), /ˈt͡ʃoʃa/ (note: Buenos Aires and environs), [ˈt͡ʃo.ʃa] (note: Buenos Aires and environs), /ˈt͡ʃoʒa/ (note: elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay), [ˈt͡ʃo.ʒa] (note: elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Forms: chollas [plural]
Rhymes: -oʝa, -oʝa, -oʎa, -oʃa, -oʒa Etymology: Possibly from Old French cholle (“head”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *keula (“mace”), earlier "lump, lump of coal," from Proto-Germanic *kulą. Etymology templates: {{bor|es|fro|cholle||head}} Old French cholle (“head”), {{der|es|gem|-}} Germanic, {{der|es|frk|*keula|t=mace}} Frankish *keula (“mace”), {{der|es|gem-pro|*kulą}} Proto-Germanic *kulą Head templates: {{es-noun|f}} cholla f (plural chollas)
  1. cholla (cactus) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cholla-es-noun-SP~~AqEU
  2. (figurative) reason, understanding Tags: feminine, figuratively
    Sense id: en-cholla-es-noun-voQVwQpE
  3. (colloquial, Honduras) head Tags: Honduras, colloquial, feminine
    Sense id: en-cholla-es-noun-ny5tM6Nx Categories (other): Honduran Spanish
  4. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) laziness Tags: El-Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, colloquial, feminine
    Sense id: en-cholla-es-noun-CKHYFQmJ Categories (other): Guatemalan Spanish, Honduran Spanish, Salvadorian Spanish
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃoʝa/, [ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa], /ˈt͡ʃoʝa/ (note: most of Spain and Latin America), [ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa] (note: most of Spain and Latin America), /ˈt͡ʃoʎa/ (note: rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines), [ˈt͡ʃo.ʎa] (note: rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines), /ˈt͡ʃoʃa/ (note: Buenos Aires and environs), [ˈt͡ʃo.ʃa] (note: Buenos Aires and environs), /ˈt͡ʃoʒa/ (note: elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay), [ˈt͡ʃo.ʒa] (note: elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Rhymes: -oʝa, -oʝa, -oʎa, -oʃa, -oʒa Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} cholla
  1. inflection of chollar:
    third-person singular present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: chollar Categories (topical): Body parts Categories (lifeform): Cacti
    Sense id: en-cholla-es-verb-zhK0pMrf Disambiguation of Body parts: 2 4 2 2 76 13 Disambiguation of Cacti: 11 5 2 2 66 14 Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 2 6 2 2 77 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 3 1 1 86 7 Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 1 3 12 1 68 16
  2. inflection of chollar:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular Form of: chollar
    Sense id: en-cholla-es-verb-GmPr0msU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "cholle",
        "4": "",
        "5": "head"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French cholle (“head”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "gem",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Germanic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "*keula",
        "t": "mace"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *keula (“mace”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*kulą"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *kulą",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from Old French cholle (“head”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *keula (“mace”), earlier \"lump, lump of coal,\" from Proto-Germanic *kulą.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chollas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "cholla f (plural chollas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cho‧lla"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "cholla (cactus)"
      ],
      "id": "en-cholla-es-noun-SP~~AqEU",
      "links": [
        [
          "cholla",
          "cholla#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "reason, understanding"
      ],
      "id": "en-cholla-es-noun-voQVwQpE",
      "links": [
        [
          "reason",
          "reason"
        ],
        [
          "understanding",
          "understanding"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) reason, understanding"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Honduran Spanish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "head"
      ],
      "id": "en-cholla-es-noun-ny5tM6Nx",
      "links": [
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, Honduras) head"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Honduras",
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Guatemalan Spanish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Honduran Spanish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Salvadorian Spanish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "laziness"
      ],
      "id": "en-cholla-es-noun-CKHYFQmJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "laziness",
          "laziness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) laziness"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "El-Salvador",
        "Guatemala",
        "Honduras",
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʝa/",
      "note": "most of Spain and Latin America"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa]",
      "note": "most of Spain and Latin America"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʎa/",
      "note": "rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʎa]",
      "note": "rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʃa/",
      "note": "Buenos Aires and environs"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʃa]",
      "note": "Buenos Aires and environs"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʒa/",
      "note": "elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʒa]",
      "note": "elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʝa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʝa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʎa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʃa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʒa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cholla"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "cholla",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cho‧lla"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 6 2 2 77 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 3 1 1 86 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 3 12 1 68 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 4 2 2 76 13",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "es",
          "name": "Body parts",
          "orig": "es:Body parts",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "All topics",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
            "Health"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 5 2 2 66 14",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "es",
          "name": "Cacti",
          "orig": "es:Cacti",
          "parents": [
            "Caryophyllales order plants",
            "Succulents",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "chollar"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of chollar:",
        "third-person singular present indicative"
      ],
      "id": "en-cholla-es-verb-zhK0pMrf",
      "links": [
        [
          "chollar",
          "chollar#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "chollar"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of chollar:",
        "second-person singular imperative"
      ],
      "id": "en-cholla-es-verb-GmPr0msU",
      "links": [
        [
          "chollar",
          "chollar#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʝa/",
      "note": "most of Spain and Latin America"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa]",
      "note": "most of Spain and Latin America"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʎa/",
      "note": "rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʎa]",
      "note": "rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʃa/",
      "note": "Buenos Aires and environs"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʃa]",
      "note": "Buenos Aires and environs"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʒa/",
      "note": "elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʒa]",
      "note": "elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʝa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʝa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʎa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʃa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʒa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cholla"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʃa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʃa/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʎa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʎa/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʒa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʒa/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʝa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʝa/2 syllables",
    "Spanish 2-syllable words",
    "Spanish countable nouns",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish feminine nouns",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish non-lemma forms",
    "Spanish nouns",
    "Spanish terms borrowed from Old French",
    "Spanish terms derived from Frankish",
    "Spanish terms derived from Germanic languages",
    "Spanish terms derived from Old French",
    "Spanish terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Spanish verb forms",
    "es:Body parts",
    "es:Cacti"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "cholle",
        "4": "",
        "5": "head"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French cholle (“head”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "gem",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Germanic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "frk",
        "3": "*keula",
        "t": "mace"
      },
      "expansion": "Frankish *keula (“mace”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*kulą"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *kulą",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from Old French cholle (“head”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *keula (“mace”), earlier \"lump, lump of coal,\" from Proto-Germanic *kulą.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chollas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "cholla f (plural chollas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cho‧lla"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "cholla (cactus)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cholla",
          "cholla#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "reason, understanding"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reason",
          "reason"
        ],
        [
          "understanding",
          "understanding"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) reason, understanding"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Honduran Spanish",
        "Spanish colloquialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "head"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, Honduras) head"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Honduras",
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Guatemalan Spanish",
        "Honduran Spanish",
        "Salvadorian Spanish",
        "Spanish colloquialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "laziness"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "laziness",
          "laziness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) laziness"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "El-Salvador",
        "Guatemala",
        "Honduras",
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʝa/",
      "note": "most of Spain and Latin America"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa]",
      "note": "most of Spain and Latin America"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʎa/",
      "note": "rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʎa]",
      "note": "rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʃa/",
      "note": "Buenos Aires and environs"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʃa]",
      "note": "Buenos Aires and environs"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʒa/",
      "note": "elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʒa]",
      "note": "elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʝa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʝa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʎa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʃa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʒa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cholla"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʃa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʃa/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʎa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʎa/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʒa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʒa/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʝa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/oʝa/2 syllables",
    "Spanish 2-syllable words",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish non-lemma forms",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Spanish verb forms",
    "es:Body parts",
    "es:Cacti"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "cholla",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cho‧lla"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "chollar"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of chollar:",
        "third-person singular present indicative"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chollar",
          "chollar#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "chollar"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "inflection of chollar:",
        "second-person singular imperative"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chollar",
          "chollar#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʝa/",
      "note": "most of Spain and Latin America"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʝa]",
      "note": "most of Spain and Latin America"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʎa/",
      "note": "rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʎa]",
      "note": "rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʃa/",
      "note": "Buenos Aires and environs"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʃa]",
      "note": "Buenos Aires and environs"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃoʒa/",
      "note": "elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃo.ʒa]",
      "note": "elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʝa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʝa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʎa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʃa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-oʒa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cholla"
}

Download raw JSONL data for cholla meaning in Spanish (5.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Spanish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (f074e77 and 633533e). 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.