gala

Meanings

1. Celebratory; festive.

1. Pomp, show, or festivity.
2. A competition
3. A showy and festive party.
4. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

1. A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.

1. Galashiels, a town in Scotland.

1. A type of apple, a cross-pollination between Kidd's Orange Red and Golden Delicious.

1. Galatasaray S.K. (a Turkish sports club best known for its football team)

Etymology

From French gala, or directly from that word's etymon, which is either Italian gala, or Spanish gala, both meaning "festive occasion", and derived from Old French gale (“rejoicing”). (The French word likely kept the final -a to avoid homophony with gale (“scabies”).) Ultimately cognate to gallant and hence probably from Frankish *wala (“good, well”).