Gula vs Kula - What's the difference?
gula | kula |
The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.
(zoology) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.
(architecture) A capping moulding; a cymatium.
(Webster 1913)
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A tower, turret or a steeple on the Balkans erected during the period of domination on the area.
* 1867 , Georgina Mary Muir Mackenzie, Lady Georgina Mary Muir Sebright, Mackenzie Sebright, Adeline Paulina Irby,
* 1998 , Adil Zulfikarpaši?, Milovan Djilas, Nadežda Ga?e,
* 1998 , Miranda Vickers, Between Serb and Albanian , p. 111:
As nouns the difference between gula and kula
is that gula is pyramid while kula is village.gula
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(en-noun)kula
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(wikipedia kula)Noun
(en noun)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.
The Bosniak, p.5:
- The most important kulas of the ?engi?-begs are those in Zagorje, in Rataji and the River Odžak near Ustikolina.
- The kulas were indeed like fortresses, with as many as twenty 'guns', ie. adult men ready to fight.