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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hola.

Pronunciation

Interjection

hola

  1. (informal) Hello, hi, hey.

Anagrams

Asturian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈola/ [ˈo.la]
  • Rhymes: -ola
  • Syllabification: ho‧la

Interjection

hola

  1. hello, hi

Catalan

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hola.

Pronunciation

Interjection

hola

  1. hello, hi

Dutch

Etymology

From Late Middle Dutch hola (“wait up!, hold on!, calm down!”), which also had the dialectal form holla; compare Middle Low German hola!, holda! (interjection), Middle High German holā! (interjection), of obscure origin. Possibly from the imperative of Middle Dutch halen, *holen (“to fetch”) (> dialectal holen), or possibly from Old French holà (“hey!”), from ho (“hold!, halt!, stop!”) + là (“there”).

Pronunciation

Interjection

hola

  1. hallo, hoi

Further reading

Anagrams

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Esperanto

Alternative forms

Etymology

Derived from French holà, from ho (“ho!”) + là (“there”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhola/
  • Rhymes: -ola
  • Hyphenation: ho‧la

Interjection

hola

  1. hello, hey ("exclamation to get attention")

French

Pronunciation

Noun

hola f (plural holas)

  1. Mexican wave (a phenomenon at sports events)

Further reading

Anagrams

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈho.la/, [ˈho.lə]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *fola, from Proto-Oceanic *polac, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəlaj (“spread out”).

Verb

hola

  1. (transitive) to spread
Derived terms
  • hohola
  • kauhola
  • mahola
  • pāhola

Etymology 2

From English hour.

Noun

hola

  1. time, hour
    Hola ʻehia kēia?
    What time is it?

References

  • Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “hola”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN
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Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hole”).

Noun

hola f (genitive singular holu, nominative plural holur)

  1. hole, cavity (indent into an object, e.g. the ground)
    Tannlæknirinn fann holu í jaxlinum mínum.
    The dentist found a cavity in my molar.
Declension
More information singular, plural ...

Etymology 2

Verb

hola (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative holaði, supine holað)

  1. to hollow, to hollow out [with accusative]
Conjugation
More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information strong declension (sterk beyging), singular (eintala) ...
Derived terms
  • hola að innan (“to hollow out”)

See also

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Ido

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Etymology

From Spanish hola.

Pronunciation

Interjection

hola

  1. hello, hi

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

hola m

  1. h-prothesized form of ola

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

hola m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of hole

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hola f

  1. definite singular of hole

Old English

Noun

hola

  1. genitive plural of hol

Polish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔla
  • Syllabification: ho‧la

Interjection

hola

  1. (colloquial) cool your heels!, cool your jets!, hold your horses!, stop!, whoa! (slow down)
    Synonyms: stop, wolnego, z wolna
  2. (colloquial) stop!, whoa! (you should not have done/said that)
    Synonyms: stop, wolnego, z wolna

Adverb

hola (not comparable)

  1. (Kielce) far away; late
    Po południu juz hola. ― The afternoon is already far away/late.

Further reading

  • hola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Władysław Siarkowski (1878), “hola”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 247

Sotho

Verb

hola

  1. to grow

Spanish

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