hola

Borrowed from Spanish hola.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊlɑː/
• Rhymes: -əʊlə

hola

1. (informal) Hello, hi, hey.

• HALO, halo, halo-

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

hola

1. hello, hi

Borrowed from Spanish hola.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈo.la]

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hola

1. hello, hi

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”).

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hola

1. hallo, hoi

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “hola”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• halo

• halo

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

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

hola

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

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.la/

hola f (plural holas)

1. Mexican wave (a phenomenon at sports events)

• “hola”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• halo

• IPA^(key): /ˈho.la/, [ˈho.lə]

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

hola

1. (transitive) to spread

From English hour.

hola

1. time, hour

   Hola ʻehia kēia?

   What time is it?

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːla/
• Rhymes: -ɔːla

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

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.

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

1. to hollow, to hollow out [with accusative]

• hola að innan (“to hollow out”)

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From Spanish hola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.la/

hola

1. hello, hi

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɔl̪ˠə]

hola m

1. h-prothesized form of ola

• holen

hola m or f

1. definite feminine singular of hole

hola f

1. definite singular of hole

hola

1. genitive plural of hol

Onomatopoeic.

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: ho‧la

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

hola (not comparable)

1. (Kielce) far away; late

   Po południu juz hola. ― The afternoon is already far away/late.

• 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

hola

1. to grow

Probably from French holà (“hey! stop!”).^[1] This is related to greetings in Germanic cognates such as Dutch hola, Old High German holā, emphatic imperative of Old High German holōn (“to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman”)^[2][3]

The Diccionario de la lengua española compares the Germanic expressions English hello and German hallo.^[4] Also compared is Arabic وَٱللّٰه (wal-lāh, “really?, by God!”), but support for this is lacking.

• IPA^(key): /ˈola/ [ˈo.la]

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• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: ho‧la
• Homophone: ola

¡hola!

1. hello, hi, hey

   ¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás? ― Hey! How are you doing?

• → English: hola
• → Portuguese: olá

• “hola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “olá”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• halo, haló

-hola

1. to get paid

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

-hola

1. (transitive) to drag, to draw, to pull
2. (transitive) to lead, to guide

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “hola”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “hola (6.3)”