hela

From German hell.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhela/

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Hyphenation: he‧la

hela (accusative singular helan, plural helaj, accusative plural helajn)

1. clear, bright
   • 1997, Henrik Ibsen, translated by Odd Tangerud, John Gabriel Borkman:

     Li estas juna homo kun helaj, bravaj okuloj.

     He is a young man with bright, brave eyes.

• helo

A word from the same stem as heleä (“bright (e.g. of a sound)”) and helistä (“to clink, jingle, tingle”);^[1] thus a sound-symbolic word. Morphologically possibly a back-formation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelɑ/, [ˈhe̞lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elɑ
• Syllabification^(key): he‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): he‧la

hela

1. mounting, fitting, bushing
2. bolster (on a knife)

• “hela”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from German hell. Not inherited from Esperanto hela, but could be influenced. The native word is klara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhela/

hela

1. (neologism, of colors) light

   Synonym: klara

From Malay hela, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hilah (“drag, pull”). Cognate with Tagalog hila.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhela]
• Hyphenation: hé‧la

héla

1. (transitive) to pull, to drag, to haul

• “hela” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hilah (“drag, pull”). Cognate with Tagalog hila.

• IPA^(key): /hela/
• Rhymes: -ela, -la

héla (Jawi spelling هيلا)

1. (transitive) to drag, to haul

• Indonesian: hela
• → Ternate: hela

• “hela” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• helet
• helte (simple past, Etymology 4)
• helt (past participle, Etymology 4)

hela

1. past tense of hele
2. past participle of hele

hela (present tense helar, past tense hela, past participle hela, passive infinitive helast, present participle helande, imperative hela/hel)

1. alternative form of hele

hela f (definite singular hela, indefinite plural heler or helor, definite plural helene or helone)

1. definite singular of hele
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of hele

From Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō. Cognate with Old Frisian hēla.

• hǣla

• IPA^(key): /ˈxeː.lɑ/, [ˈheː.lɑ]

hēla m (nominative plural hēlan)

1. heel (of the foot)

   Synonym: hōh

• Middle English: hele, heele, heyle, heyll, hiele, hile
  • English: heel
  • Scots: heel
  • Yola: heel

Variant of ēalā, equivalent to *hē +‎ lā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxeː.lɑː/, [ˈheː.lɑː]

hēlā

1. alternative form of ēalā

From Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō. Cognates with Old English hēla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːla/, [ˈheːla]

hēla m

2. heel

• North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) haiel, hael, häile, hajel, hägel
• West Frisian: hyl

From Proto-West Germanic *hailijan. Cognate with Old English hǣlan, Old Saxon hēlian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːla/, [ˈhɛːla]

hēla

2. (transitive) to heal

• Saterland Frisian: heila
• West Frisian: hielje

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 26, 28

From Old Norse heila, from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną.

hēla

1. to heal, to cure
2. to save (in religious sense)

or

• Swedish: hela

• chela

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈxɛ.la/
• Homophone: Hela

hela f

1. (Kuyavia) crate for transporting potatoes

   Synonym: paka

• Józef Bliziński (1860) “hela”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 623
• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “hela”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 271

• IPA^(key): /ˈela/ [ˈe.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: he‧la

hela

1. inflection of haber:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with la
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with la

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛ.la/

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Borrowed from German Heller,^[1] which was introduced in 1904 at the value of 1/100 rupee.

hela class IX (plural hela class X)

1. (chiefly Tanzania) money

   Synonyms: pesa, fedha

2. (historical) heller

Other scripts
Ajami	هِيْلَ

Probably from dialectal Arabic هَلَا (halā). Compare also هَلُمَّ (halumma).

hela

1. Exclamation to get attention: hey
   • 18th century, Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, Al-Inkishafi‎^[2], translation from R. Allen (1946) “Inkishafi—a translation from the Swahili”, in African Studies, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, pages 243–249, stanza 11:

     مُيُ وَاغُ نِنِ هُزُدُكَانِ ، لِكُغُرِيِلُ هِيْلَ نِنْنِ ،

     Moyo wangu nini huzundukani, likughuriyelo hela ni-n'ni?

     Soul, why not awake? Hi! what is it that cheats you?

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hela

1. inflection of hel:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

From Old Swedish hēla, from Old Norse heila, from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną. Equivalent to Swedish hel +‎ -a.

hela (present helar, preterite helade, supine helat, imperative hela)

1. to heal; especially through faith

• helare

From Malay hela.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.la/

hela

1. (transitive) to pull

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): /he.ˈlaː/
• Hyphenation: he‧la

hela (definite accusative helayı, plural helalar)

1. toilet

   Synonyms: abdesthane, ayakyolu, kenef, tuvalet, yüznumara

   Montunu al ve helaya git, montunu giy montla sıç, montla sıç.

   Take your coat and go to the toilet, put your coat on and shit with your coat on, with your coat on.

• “hela”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛla/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛla/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈhala/

hela (first-person singular present helaf, not mutable)

1. alternative form of hel