palta

From Spanish faltar, from falta +‎ -ar, or from Vulgar Latin *fallitāre, formed from a root *fallitus, from Latin fallō.

• Hyphenation: pal‧ta

palta

1. to be absent from work, school, etc.

palta

1. an absence

For quotations using this term, see Citations:palta.

palta

1. inflection of palttaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• lapat, palat

From a Mediterranean substrate word.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.ta/
• Rhymes: -alta
• Hyphenation: pàl‧ta

palta f (plural palte)

1. swamp, bayou

• acquitrino
• melma, fanghiglia, mota
• brago, belletta, melletta

• talpa

Akin to Italian palta.

palta f

1. mud

Borrowed from Quechua pallta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalta/ [ˈpal̪.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -alta
• Syllabification: pal‧ta

palta f (plural paltas)

1. (Andes, Chile, Rioplatense, uncommon in Guatemala) avocado (fruit)

   Synonyms: aguacate, (Philippines) avocado, (Colombia, dated) cura

2. (Peru, colloquial, slang) embarrassment, fear

   Synonym: vergüenza

   ¡Qué palta! ― How embarrassing!

The fruit of the avocado tree is referred to as palta. The tree itself is referred to as palto, though Ecuadorian Spanish uses aguacate.

palta m (plural paltas)

1. (historical, uncountable) Palta (extinct language)

palta m or f (masculine and feminine plural paltas)

1. (historical) relating to the Palta language or people

• “palta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Idioma palta on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• Paltas on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *baltu (“axe”)

• Hyphenation: pal‧ta

palta (definite accusative paltany, plural paltalar)

1. axe

• “palta” in Enedilim.com
• “palta” in Webonary.org