tola

From Hindi तोला (tolā)/Urdu تولا (tolā), from Sanskrit तोलक (tolaka), from तोलः (tol, “weighing”) (root: तुल् (tul, “to weigh”)).

• tolah, tole

• Rhymes: -əʊlə

tola (plural tolas)

1. A unit of mass used in India, equal to the mass of a silver rupee coin, fixed at 180 troy grains (11.663 8038 grams) in 1833, and of a similar but slightly variable value before that date.

Borrowed from Spanish tola.

tola (plural tolas)

1. A South American grassland shrub of the genus Parastrephia.

• Prinsep, James (1840), Useful tables, forming an appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: part the first, Coins, weights, and measures of British India (2nd ed.), Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, pp. 65–74, 79–90.
• Platts, John T. (1884), A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., p. 344.
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume 10/1 (1926), Oxford: University Press, p. 111.

• ATOL, Alto, Toal, a lot, alot, alto, alto-, atlo-, lota, talo-

From a contraction of the determiner toa (“all”) + feminine singular article la (“the”).

tola f (masculine tol, neuter tolo, masculine plural tolos, feminine plural toles)

1. all the

tola

1. baked brick

tolo (“linen”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtola/
• Rhymes: -ola
• Hyphenation: to‧la

tola (accusative singular tolan, plural tolaj, accusative plural tolajn)

1. linen, made out of linen
   • 1907, Kabe, chapter 9, in La Faraono, part 2, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:

     Vi havas ĉi tie vestejon, plenan de tolaj kaj atlasaj vestoj, kaj en la kestoj vi trovos ringojn, ĉenojn kaj braceletojn…

     Here you have a wardrobe full of linen and satin garments, and in the chests you will find rings, chains, and bracelets…

tola (third person singular past indicative toldi, third person plural past indicative tolað, tolt, supine tolað, tolt)

1. to accept, tolerate

From Proto-Finnic *tola. Cognate with Proto-Samic *toalē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtolɑ/, [ˈt̪o̞lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -olɑ
• Syllabification^(key): to‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): to‧la

tola

1. (archaic) a track or trail, especially a skiing track
2. (idiomatic) state of affairs, track

   Asiat ovat hyvällä tolalla.

   The things are on a good track.

   Asiat pitää saada oikealle tolalle.

   We have to get things on a good track.

   Vieraat saavat hänet tolaltaan.

   Meeting strangers upsets him.

   (literally, “Meeting strangers gets him off track.”)

• (track): ura, polku
• (skiing track): latu

idioms

• olla poissa tolaltaan

• “tola”, 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 3 July 2023

• laot, lato, loat, olat, talo

• entola

From Proto-Celtic *tullon, *tullos (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Compare Spanish tollo (“hole”), Welsh twll, Breton toull, Irish toll.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔla/

tola f (plural tolas)

1. ditch used for watering a field
2. dam in a ditch, used for directing the waters
3. heap of clogs and brushwood which is burned down, its ashes later used as fertilizer

   Synonyms: borrea, borroeira, tilla, tilleiro

• atolar
• tol

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tola”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tola”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tola”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ˠɔl̪ˠə]

tola f sg

1. genitive singular of toil (“will; inclination, desire, wish”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tola”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tola”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tola”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

From Malay tolak (“to push, to reject”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.la/
• Hyphenation: to‧la

tola

1. (transitive) to push

   Synonym: sorong

From Old Norse þola.

tola (present tense toler, past tense tolte, past participle tolt, passive infinitive tolast, present participle tolande, imperative tol)

1. alternative form of tole

• tåle (Bokmål)

• “tola” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

tola f sg

1. feminine singular of tolo

• IPA^(key): /ˈtola/ [ˈt̪o.la]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: to‧la

tola f (plural tolas)

1. tola (Parastrephia)
2. false heath (Fabiana spp.)
3. Baccharis incarum

• “tola”, 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

Borrowed from Hindi तोला (tolā).

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tola class IX (plural tola class X)

1. tola (a unit of mass, approximately half an ounce)

Compare Sahu tola'a. Said by de Clercq to be from Classical Malay تولق (tolak) (cf. Modern Malay tolak).

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.la/

tola (Jawi توله)

1. (transitive) to stop
2. (transitive) to interrupt
3. (transitive) to decrease or reduce one's salary
4. (transitive) to break
5. (transitive) to cut

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Borrowed from English dollar.

tola

1. dollar