källa
See also: kalla
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish kælda, from Old Norse kelda.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]källa c
- a source (of information, or other things)
- Från en säker källa som även angav sina källor har jag fått veta att Nisses pizzeria är en källa till god kebabsås
- From a reliable source, who also gave his sources, I've learned that Nisse's pizzeria is a source of tasty kebab sauce
- en inspirationskälla
- a source of inspiration
- a spring (where groundwater naturally emerges)
- Källvatten tas från en källa
- Spring water is taken from a spring
- a well (with some other liquid or gas)
- oljekälla
- oil well
- a source (of a river)
- Nilens källa
- the source of the Nile
- (mathematics) a source; a point where the divergence of a vector field is positive
Usage notes
[edit]The spring/well sense in the original one, but källa is most commonly used as the generic word for source, hence why that sense is listed first.
Declension
[edit]Declension of källa