orella

• urella

Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.

• IPA^(key): /oˈɾeʎa/
• Rhymes: -eʎa
• Syllabification: o‧re‧lla

orella f

1. (anatomy) ear

• “oreja”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

• aurella (medieval)

Inherited from Old Catalan oreyla~oreylla~orella, from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈɾɛ.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [oˈɾə.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [oˈɾe.ʎa]

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orella f (plural orelles)

1. (anatomy) ear

• eixorellar

• “orella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “orella”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “orella” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “orella” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• orelha (reintegrationist spelling)
• ourella

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese orelha, from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.

• IPA^(key): /oˈɾeʎa̝/

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orella f (plural orellas)

1. (anatomy) ear
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 540:

     todo esto me entra per hũa orella et me sal perla outra

     all this comes to me by one ear and out the other

2. Galician sweet fritters typically consumed during Shrovetide
3. mouldboard

• “orella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “orella” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “orella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “orella” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “orella” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.