Etymology

From Old FrenchCategory:Italian terms derived from Old French#SPOLA spole, espole, from Middle DutchCategory:Italian terms derived from Middle Dutch#SPOLA spoele, from Old DutchCategory:Italian terms derived from Old Dutch#SPOLA *spōla, *spuola, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Italian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SPOLA *spōlǭ (“spool”). More at spool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɔ.la/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#SPOLACategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#SPOLA
• Rhymes: -ɔlaCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ɔla#SPOLACategory:Rhymes:Italian/ɔla/2 syllables#SPOLA
• Hyphenation: spò‧la

Noun

spola f (plural spole)Category:Italian lemmas#SPOLACategory:Italian nouns#SPOLACategory:Italian countable nouns#SPOLACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#SPOLACategory:Italian feminine nouns#SPOLACategory:Pages with entries#SPOLACategory:Pages with 3 entries#SPOLA

1. shuttle (in weaving and in transportation)
2. bobbin
3. spool

Anagrams

• salpo, salpò, spalo, spalò

Noun

spola (Cyrillic spelling спола)Category:Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms#SPOLACategory:Serbo-Croatian noun forms#SPOLACategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian noun form entries#SPOLACategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#SPOLACategory:Pages with entries#SPOLACategory:Pages with 3 entries#SPOLA

1. genitive singular of spol

Etymology

Probably from Middle Low GermanCategory:Swedish terms derived from Middle Low German#SPOLA spölen, from Old SaxonCategory:Swedish terms derived from Old Saxon#SPOLA spōlian, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Swedish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SPOLA *spōlijan.

Compare the older byform spöla. The back vowel could stem from Low German past forms with Rückumlaut. Alternatively it could be from Middle DutchCategory:Swedish terms derived from Middle Dutch#SPOLA influence. Cognate with Danish spule, Norwegian Bokmål spyle, Norwegian Nynorsk spyla, and further Dutch spoelen, German spülen.

Verb

spola (present spolar, preterite spolade, supine spolat, imperative spola)Category:Swedish lemmas#SPOLACategory:Swedish verbs#SPOLACategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#SPOLACategory:Pages with entries#SPOLACategory:Pages with 3 entries#SPOLA

1. (often with a particle, especially av (“off”)) to flush (let water (or another liquid) flow over, usually in order clean, and usually at pressure), (when cleaning) to wash, to hose off, to rinse, etc.

   Han spolade av altanen

   He hosed off the deck

   Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#SPOLA

2. to flush (a toilet)

   spola toaletten

   flush the toilet

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   Du glömde spola

   You forgot to flush

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3. (figuratively) to flush (get rid of something that no longer seems desirable)

   Vi spolar den idén. Det kommer inte funka.

   Let's flush that idea. It won't work.

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4. to reel, to spool, to wind (quickly wind on a spool or reel or the like)

   spola tillbaka bandet ― rewind the tapeCategory:Swedish terms with usage examples#SPOLA

   spola fram bandet ― fast forward the tapeCategory:Swedish terms with usage examples#SPOLA

   spola upp ny tråd ― wind new threadCategory:Swedish terms with usage examples#SPOLA

References

• “spola”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “spola”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “spola”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• slopa