1º_ A woman's name, although at first it was a man's name (or at least, for both genders) but because of its ending in /a/ in Spanish it is used only as feminine. It has Hebrew origins around 1492; 1460; 1497; 1500; 1464; 1492; (challah "aura, halo"), and a version also used in Arabic. See Halah. 2º_ Although today they are little used: "thread", "strip of cloth with threads", "product and action of spinning", also "row, row". They all come from the Latin fila ("the threads"). 3º_ By association with the previous "thin gut". 4º_ An old measure of water for irrigation, which could be by volume, regulating the quantity using calibrated holes in a ditch, or by time distributed among farmers. The name comes from the "trickle of water". 5º_ Inflection of spinning. See verbs/thread.