pullaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pulla (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pullas)

1. A sweet, leavened baked good made of wheat and flavored with crushed cardamom, resembling very soft bread in consistency, eaten in Finland.
   • 1986, Melissa Ladenheim, "The sauna in central New York:

     "Then we would all have coffee and pulla bread," recalled Hilma Wainio of Spencer.

   • 1991 September 22, Eleanor Charles, “Connecticut Guide”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Other locally made items include pulla, a foot-long braided bread flavored with cardamom and priced at $6 a loaf, and wood carvings.

   • 1992, Joan Potter Loveless, Three Weavers, page 29:

     Pulla is a braided yeast loaf, flavored with freshly ground cardamom and sprinkled with chopped almonds and sugar […]

   • 1992, Aili Jarvenpa, In Two Cultures: The Stories of Second Generation Finnish Americans:

     I remember the best, the years on the farm, wild roses and mushrooms that you picked near the pasture, cardamom pulla warm from the oven, […]

   • 2013, Colleen Coble, Rock Harbor Search and Rescue: Lost and Found, page 106:

     Come on, your dad's grabbed us all some pullas and cider.

   • 2018, Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., Zoë François, Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day: Sweet and Decadent Baking for Every Occasion:

     You can expect to be served a slice of pulla with your afternoon coffee in any Finnish household.

アナグラム

• Paull, all-up, pallu

Latin

発音

• pulla: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpʊlːʲä]
• pulla: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpulːä]
• pullā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.laː/, [ˈpʊlːʲäː]
• pullā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.la/, [ˈpulːä]

形容詞

pulla

1. inflection of pullus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

形容詞

pullā

1. ablative feminine singular of pullus

参照

• pulla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

発音

動詞

pull a (三人称単数 現在形 pulls a, 現在分詞 pulling a, 過去形および過去分詞形 pulled a)

1. (informal, transitive, followed by a person's name, idiomatic) To emulate a behaviour generally attributed to the individual named.

   He pulled an Elvis and got really fat.

   • 2011 January 1, Boris Kapusta, “Re: Obama Most Admired”, in rec.crafts.metalworking, Usenet‎^[1]:

     You must be smart. Perhaps you have a degree. Find that diploma yet? Still waiting for your "proof". Or are you going to pull an Obama on us?

使用する際の注意点

Can either refer to the actions of a famous person, real or fictitious, that would be understood by most anyone, or to the actions of an individual known by the speaker and his audience. If "Jane Doe" is known for hiccuping when nervous, you could say: I got reprimanded for pulling a Jane Doe.

参考

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アナグラム

• Paull, all-up, pallu