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語源

Borrowed from Finnish pulla, from Swedish bulle. Doublet of bowl and boule.

名詞

pulla (countable and uncountable, plural 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:

     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

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 and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)