olla

plural ollas

1. A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.

   On top of the counter were three clay jars or ollas. Two of them were empty but the third was covered with the tin lid from a lardpail and the lid was notched to accommodate the handle of an enameled tin dipper.

   1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy; 1), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN

2. A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
3. agricultureAn unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation.

   An olla (which literally means “pot”) is a round, unglazed terra cotta clay pot with a long neck that you fill with water and bury next to your plants. It irrigates in the ground.

   2019 March 1, Mary Kathryn Dunston, “Archived copy”, in Farmer's Almanac, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2020

4. Ancient RomeA cinerary urn.

1. A town in Kwara State, Nigeria.