hola
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈoʊlɑː/
- Rhymes: -əʊlə
Interjection
hola
Anagrams
Asturian
Pronunciation
Interjection
hola
Catalan
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Etymology
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Interjection
hola
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
Audio: (file)
Interjection
hola
Further reading
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “hola”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Anagrams
Esperanto
Alternative forms
Etymology
Derived from French holà, from ho (“ho!”) + là (“there”).
Pronunciation
Interjection
hola
French
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ɔ.la/
Noun
hola f (plural holas)
- Mexican wave (a phenomenon at sports events)
Further reading
- “hola”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Hawaiian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Polynesian *fola, from Proto-Oceanic *polac, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəlaj (“spread out”).
Verb
hola
- (transitive) to spread
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
hola
References
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “hola”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hole”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hola f (genitive singular holu, nominative plural holur)
Declension
Verb
hola (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative holaði, supine holað)
- (governs the accusative) to hollow, to hollow out
Conjugation
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að hola | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
holað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
holandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég hola | við holum | present (nútíð) |
ég holi | við holum |
þú holar | þið holið | þú holir | þið holið | ||
hann, hún, það holar | þeir, þær, þau hola | hann, hún, það holi | þeir, þær, þau holi | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég holaði | við holuðum | past (þátíð) |
ég holaði | við holuðum |
þú holaðir | þið holuðuð | þú holaðir | þið holuðuð | ||
hann, hún, það holaði | þeir, þær, þau holuðu | hann, hún, það holaði | þeir, þær, þau holuðu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
hola (þú) | holið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
holaðu | holiði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að holast | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
holast | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
holandist ** ** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég holast | við holumst | present (nútíð) |
ég holist | við holumst |
þú holast | þið holist | þú holist | þið holist | ||
hann, hún, það holast | þeir, þær, þau holast | hann, hún, það holist | þeir, þær, þau holist | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég holaðist | við holuðumst | past (þátíð) |
ég holaðist | við holuðumst |
þú holaðist | þið holuðust | þú holaðist | þið holuðust | ||
hann, hún, það holaðist | þeir, þær, þau holuðust | hann, hún, það holaðist | þeir, þær, þau holuðust | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
holast (þú) | holist (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
holastu | holisti * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
strong declension (sterk beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
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masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
holaður | holuð | holað | holaðir | holaðar | holuð | |
accusative (þolfall) |
holaðan | holaða | holað | holaða | holaðar | holuð | |
dative (þágufall) |
holuðum | holaðri | holuðu | holuðum | holuðum | holuðum | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
holaðs | holaðrar | holaðs | holaðra | holaðra | holaðra | |
weak declension (veik beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
holaði | holaða | holaða | holuðu | holuðu | holuðu | |
accusative (þolfall) |
holaða | holuðu | holaða | holuðu | holuðu | holuðu | |
dative (þágufall) |
holaða | holuðu | holaða | holuðu | holuðu | holuðu | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
holaða | holuðu | holaða | holuðu | holuðu | holuðu |
Derived terms
- hola að innan (“to hollow out”)
See also
Ido
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hola
Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
hola m
- h-prothesized form of ola
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Noun
hola m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
hola f
Old English
Noun
hola
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Interjection
hola
- (colloquial) cool your heels!, cool your jets!, hold your horses!, stop!, whoa! (slow down)
- (colloquial) stop!, whoa! (you should not have done/said that)
Further reading
- hola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Sotho
Verb
hola
- to grow
Spanish
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Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈola/ [ˈo.la]
Audio: (file) Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ola
- Syllabification: ho‧la
- Homophone: ola
Interjection
¡hola!
Descendants
References
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) “hola”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 813, p. 813
- ^ http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/83587#eid2235595
- ^ http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/87735?redirectedFrom=hol%C3%A0#eid
- ^ “hola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading
- “hola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “olá”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Anagrams
Swazi
Verb
-hola
- to get paid
Inflection
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Zulu
Verb
-hola
- (transitive) to drag, to draw, to pull
- (transitive) to lead, to guide
Inflection
References
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “hola”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “hola (6.3)”
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- haw:Units of measure
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