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Definitions: Kola |
KolaNoun1. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract. 2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: KolaSynonyms: goora nut (n), kola nut (n), kola nut tree (n). (additional references) |
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See also Kola Peninsula.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Kola."
Crosswords: Kola |
| English words defined with "kola": Cola, cola extract ♦ dope ♦ genus Cola ♦ kola nut, kola nut tree, Kola Peninsula ♦ Lapp ♦ Murmansk ♦ Sami. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "kola": urtite. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "kola": Kolinsky. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Kola" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (Kola), Basque (paste), Croatian (carriage), Czech (Cola), Papiamen (sift), Serbo-Croatian (car, cola, kola, wain), Spanish (Kola), Swedish (caramel, coal, croak, pass out, toffee, toffy), Turkish (coke, Cola, soda, starch, stiffening). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Mirko opet ukrade kola! (Maratonci trce pocasni krug; writing credit: Dusan Kovacevic) More like, the Kola Loka. (Limonádov Joe aneb Konská opera; writing credit: Jir Brdecka; Oldrich Lipsk) The Kola Loka is the law. (Limonádov Joe aneb Konská opera; writing credit: Jir Brdecka; Oldrich Lipsk) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ispitivanje i zamena neispravnih integralnih kola (1972) Integralna kola (1971) Prodajem stara kola (1968) Mainatharuvi Kola Case (1967) Kottayam Kola Case (1967) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | On board the steamer Kola between Bombay and Karachi. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Crewmen on deck of Kola between Bombay and Karachi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Finland | Demand for air pollution control equipment is strong in Finland due to the increasing environmental concerns in the surrounding areas (i.e. the Kola Peninsula, St. Petersburg and the Baltic countries). (references) |
Nigeria | In the northern cities of Kano and Katsina, recorded history dates back to approximately 1000 AD. In the centuries that followed, these Hausa kingdoms and the Bomu empire near Lake Chad prospered as important terminals of north-south trade between North African Berbers and forest people who exchanged slaves, ivory, and kola nuts for salt, glass beads, coral, cloth, weapons, brass rods, and cowrie shells used as currency. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Kola" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Kola" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "kola": Gotu Kola ♦ kola nut ♦ kola nut tree ♦ Kola Peninsula. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "kola": Inca-kola. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gotu kola | 136 | kola fm | 5 |
kola | 95 | hale kola | 4 |
kola nut | 61 | joey kola | 4 |
boof kola | 50 | kola vlaska | 4 |
kola real | 26 | gaseosa kola real | 4 |
inca kola | 26 | kola radio station | 4 |
bear kola | 17 | gotu kola benefit | 4 |
99.9 kola | 14 | fm.com kola | 4 |
cell kola | 13 | gotu kola leaf | 4 |
cash kola | 12 | cell cell kola splinter | 3 |
gota kola | 11 | hale hotel kola | 3 |
kola radio | 8 | kola nichol | 3 |
kola nut extract | 7 | inka kola | 3 |
kola note | 7 | goto kola | 3 |
denisa kola | 7 | gotu kola extract | 3 |
kola peninsula | 7 | jízdní kola | 3 |
kola narodna | 6 | kola nut travel | 3 |
kola nitida | 6 | kola o shangshkriti | 3 |
gotu kola herb | 5 | kola river | 3 |
cell kola through walk | 5 | kola swim wear | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "kola"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Kola. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Кола (Cola). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kolanoed (cola nut, kola nut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kolanoot (cola nut, kola nut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | noix de cola (kola nut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kola-Nuss (cola nut, kola nut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χυμόσ Του "έντρου Των Τροπικών (Cola), "ένδρο Των Τροπικών (Cola), ίαρπόσ Του "έντρου Των Τροπικών (Cola). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Kóladió. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | noce di cola (cola nut, kola nut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olakay Tipo De Cosmético Utilizado Pleas Mulheres Do Oriente. (various references) Кола (Cola). (various references) kola (car, cola, wain). (various references) Kola. (various references) โคลา. (various references) Кола (Cola). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "kola": kolache, kolacky, kolas. (additional references) | |
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"Kola" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akoli, jola, kala, Kalar, Kalay, Kallab, kallah, kalva, kaona, keal, Kela, Kelafo, Kelda, Kellam, Kgotla, Khoele, kial, kilan, Kilcar, killa, Kilma, Kilwa, Kiula, kle, klo, klok, klon, Kloof, Klos, knla, knole, ko, koa, koal, koda, Kogl, Kohla, kol, kolan, kolar, kold, kole, Kolen, kolf, Koli, koll, kolla, kolo, Kolok, Kolov, kolp, kolt, Koma, komai, Komla, kool, koolau, Kopac, Kopay, korl, kota, Kotah, Koul, Koula, kova, Kowa, Kowal, Koyli, koza, kozlu, krlaa, kuhli, kuia, Kukla, Kul, kule, kuli, Kulig, kulla, Kullab, Kulo, Kumla, kuola, Nkhoma, Nkohla, Nkole, nola, okal, okia, oklahi, Okoli, skoal, Ukela, wola. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-l-o" | |
-1 letter: koa, oak, oka. | |
-2 letters: al, ka, la, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-l-o" | |
+1 letter: cloak, koala, kolas, polka, skoal. | |
+2 letters: alkoxy, cloaks, kalong, kaolin, klaxon, koalas, polkas, skatol, skoals. | |
+3 letters: armlock, backlog, becloak, blaubok, cloaked, daglock, earlock, flokati, folkway, kalongs, kaoline, kaolins, keitloa, kilobar, kilorad, klaxons, kolache, kolacky, kolbasi, lavrock, lawbook, leukoma, lockage, lockjaw, lockram, oaklike, oarlike, oarlock, oatlike, odalisk, outtalk, outwalk, padlock, palooka, polkaed, pollack, skatole, skatols, skoaled, talooka, uncloak, walkout, warlock, zelkova. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 6F 6C 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- --- .-.. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101111 01101100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K o l a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 006F 006C 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)45817867 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanees, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulgarer, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, болгарський |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | danisht, danishte, датски език, датски, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, dinamarquês, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | holandez, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, holandês, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, голландська мова, голландський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, френски език, френски, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, французька мова, французький |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, ungarer, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ชาวฮังการี, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, russer, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ชาวรัสเซีย, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, испански език, испански, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thailænder, Thais, Thai, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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