# hola
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hola.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈoʊlɑː/
* Rhymes: -əʊlə

### Interjection

hola
* (informal) Hello, hi, hey.

### Anagrams

* HALO, halo, halo-

## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈola/ [ˈo.la]

### Interjection

hola
* hello, hi

## Catalan

* This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈo.la]
* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

hola
* 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

* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

hola
* hallo, hoi

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* halo

## Esperanto
### Alternative forms

* halo

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhola]
* Rhymes: -ola
* Hyphenation: ho‧la

### Interjection

hola
* hello, hey ("exclamation to get attention")

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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.

### Anagrams

* halo

## Hawaiian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈho.la/, [ˈho.lə]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

hola
* (transitive) to spread

##### Derived terms

* hohola
* kauhola
* mahola
* pāhola

### Etymology 2

From English hour.

#### Noun

hola
* 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

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɔːla/
* Rhymes: -ɔːla

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

hola f (genitive singular holu, nominative plural holur)
* 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
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

hola (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative holaði, supine holað)
* to hollow, to hollow out [with accusative]

##### Derived terms

* hola að innan (“to hollow out”)

### See also

* gat

## Ido

* This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.

### Etymology

From Spanish hola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈo.la/

### Interjection

hola
* hello, hi

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhɔl̪ˠə]

### Noun

hola m
* h-prothesized form of ola

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* holen

### Noun

hola m or f
* definite feminine singular of hole

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

hola f
* definite singular of hole

## Old English
### Noun

hola
* genitive plural of hol

## Polish
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxɔ.la/
* (Lesser Poland):
** (Kielce) IPA: /ˈxɔ.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Syllabification: ho‧la

### Interjection

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

### Adverb

hola (not comparable)
* (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
* to grow

## Spanish

* This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.

### Etymology

Probably from French holà (“hey! stop!”). 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”)
The Diccionario de la lengua española compares the Germanic expressions English hello and German hallo. Also compared is Arabic وَٱللّٰه (wal-lāh, “really?, by God!”), but support for this is lacking.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈola/ [ˈo.la]
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ola
* Syllabification: ho‧la
* Homophone: ola

### Interjection

¡hola!
* hello, hi

#### Descendants

* → English: hola
* → Portuguese: olá

### 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10
* “olá”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

### Anagrams

* halo, haló

## Swazi
### Verb

-hola
* to get paid

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## 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)”