Etymology

Noun

1. A tower, turret or a steeple on the Balkans erected during the period of Ottoman domination on the area.
   • 1867, Georgina Mary Muir Mackenzie, Lady Georgina Mary Muir Sebright, Mackenzie Sebright, Adeline Paulina Irby, Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe, p. 107:

   Instead of the haïdooks, their next of kin, the zaptiés now hold a kula on the highest point of the pass; here one pauses to rest after scrambling up the vile Turkish road on one side of the ravine, and before scrambling down the vile Turkish road on the other.

   • 1998, Adil Zulfikarpašić, Milovan Djilas, Nadežda Gaće, The Bosniak, p.5:

   The most important kulas of the Čengić-begs are those in Zagorje, in Rataji and the River Odžak near Ustikolina.

   • 1998, Miranda Vickers, Between Serb and Albanian, p. 111:

   The kulas were indeed like fortresses, with as many as twenty 'guns', ie. adult men ready to fight.

Noun

1. sphere
2. spherical object; ball

   kula śnieżna — snowball

3. bullet
4. crutch

   chodzić o kulach – to walk on crutches

5. shot (the heavy iron ball)

   pchnięcie kulą — shot put

Declension

Etymology

Noun

1. tower
2. turret
3. steeple
4. castle

Declension