# ola
## English
### Noun

ola (countable and uncountable, plural olas)
* Alternative form of olay

### Anagrams

* AOL, LOA, Lao, Loa, OAL, loa

## Azerbaijani
### Verb

ola
* third-person singular subjunctive of olmaq

## Bola
### Adjective

ola
* long

### References

* Brent Wiebe, Bola (Bola-Bakovi) Language Organized Phonology Data, p. 2

## Chichewa
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese hora.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈó.ɽa/

### Noun

óla class 5 (plural maóla class 6)
* hour

## Franco-Provençal
### Noun

ola (plural ole) (Valdôtain, Graphie BREL)
* Alternative form of âla (“wing”) documented in the following location(s): Antey-St-André, Arvier, Avise, Introd, La Salle, Pontboset, Rhêmes-St-Georges, St-Marcel, St-Nicolas, Torgnon, Valtournenche, Villeneuve

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Compare Portuguese olá, Spanish hola, English hello.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔla/ [ˈɔ.lɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Hyphenation: o‧la

#### Interjection

ola!
* hello

### Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese ola (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ōlla (“pot, jar”). Cognate with Spanish olla and with Portuguese olha (a borrowing from Spanish).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈola/ [ˈo.lɐ]
* Rhymes: -ola
* Hyphenation: o‧la

#### Noun

ola m (plural olas)
* an earthenware pot or jar
    Synonyms: cacharro, cántara, pota
    Polo rabo da culler entra o gato na ola (proverb)By the spoon handle the cat enters the pot
** 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:amasa todo en huun et cozeo en ola noua ben cuberta de huun testo, que non posa ende sayr bafo nen fumoknead everything together and cook it in a new pot, well covered by a lid, so that neither steam nor smoke come out
* a unit of volume, equivalent to 16 litres or some 4 gallons
** c. 1840, Ramón Varela Vahamonde, Conversa entre os arrieiros:Váian ao inferno a beber, Que a min ben me xiringaron E, entre mangas e riostras, Trecentos reás vöaron. Débenme, Dios sabe canto, O menos trint’e set’olas E coidaban os larpeiros De pagarmas con parolas.Let them go to Hell to drink, because they harmed me very much and, among other things, three hundred reals flew away. They owe me God knows how much, at least a hundred and fifty gallons, and the gluttons thought of paying me with banter.

##### Derived terms

* oleiro
* Oleiros
* Riodolas

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ola”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “ola” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: 'Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ola”, 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), “ola”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ola”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *ola, from Proto-Oceanic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada (“to exist”). Cognate with Maori ora and Malay ada (“to have, to exist, to be”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈo.la/, [ˈo.lə]

### Noun

ola
* existence
* life
* health
* livelihood

### Verb

ola
* (stative) exist
* (stative) alive
* (stative) healthy, cured

#### Derived terms

* hoʻōla

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish olae, from Latin oleum, from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”), from ἐλαία (elaía, “olive”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔlˠə/

### Noun

ola f (genitive singular ola, nominative plural olaí)
* oil
    Synonym: íle
* (figuratively) unction

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
ola
olaí
vocative
a ola
a olaí
genitive
ola
olaí
dative
ola
olaí
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an ola
na holaí
genitive
na hola
na n-olaí
dative
leis an ola don ola
leis na holaí :

#### Derived terms

* amhola (“crude oil”)
* canna ola (“oil-can”)
* clais ola (“oil-groove”)
* cruibhéad ola (“oil-crust”)
* éadach ola, ola-éadach (“oil-cloth”)
* gaineamh ola (“oil sand”)
* ola ae troisc (“cod-liver oil”)
* ola aitil (“oil of juniper”)
* ola almóinne (“oil of almonds”)
* ola (an) mhíl mhóir (“whale oil”)
* ola bhealaithe (“lubricating oil”)
* ola bhí (“pine oil, turpentine”)
* ola bhreosla (“fuel oil”)
* ola chaiticiúmanach (“oil of catechumens”)
* ola chlóbh (“clove oil”)
* ola choisricthe (“holy oil”)
* ola eoclaipe (“eucalyptus oil”)
* ola ghruaige (“hair oil”)
* ola innill (“engine oil”)
* ola lampa (“lamp, paraffin, oil”)
* ola mhianra (“mineral oil”)
* ola mhór, ola phairifín (“paraffin oil”)
* ola olóige (“olive oil”)
* ola phailme (“palm oil”)
* ola phaitsiúlaí (“patchouli oil”)
* ola phlanda (“plant oil”)
* ola ráibe (“rape-oil”)
* ola ricne (“castor oil”)
* ola rois (“linseed oil”)
* ola róis (“attar of roses”)
* ola scealla (“shale oil”)
* ola shailleach (“fatty oil”)
* ola threáiteach (“penetrating oil”)
* ola thriomaithe (“drying oil”)
* ola thuirpintín (“turpentine oil”)
* ola-adhainte (“oil-fired”, adjective)
* olabhraon (“oil-drop”)
* olach (“oily”, adjective)
* olacheantar (“oilfield”)
* olachloch (“oil-stone”)
* olachrann (“olive tree”)
* oladhath (“oil-colour”)
* olaghraf (“oleograph”)
* olaigh (“oil; anoint”, verb)
* olarianta (“oil-tracks”)
* olastáisiún (leictreachais) (“oil-fired (electricity) station”)
* olatháirgeach (“oil-bearing, oleiferous”, adjective)
* péintéireacht ola (“oil-painting”)
* tobar ola (“oil-well”)
* treoir ola (“oil-gauge”)
* vearnais ola (“oil-varnish”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* “ola”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ola”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ola”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ola”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ola”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 531
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ola”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Latgalian
### Etymology 1

Cognate with Latvian ala.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɔla]
* Hyphenation: o‧la

#### Noun

ola f
* cave

##### Declension

$^{1)}$ dialectal

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɔla]
* Hyphenation: o‧la

#### Noun

ola
* genitive singular of ols

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈoː.la/, [ˈoːɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈo.la/, [ˈɔːlä]

### Noun

ōla f (genitive ōlae); first declension
* Alternative form of olla

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

## Latvian
### Etymology

From a previous Proto-Baltic neuter noun *wuolan, from Proto-Baltic *wuol-, from Proto-Indo-European *wēl-, *wōl-, the lengthened grade of the stem *wel- (“to turn, to roll, to wind”), whence also velt (“to roll, to trundle”). The original meaning was therefore “something that turns, rolls”, still visible in the dialectal verb olāt (“to roll, to trundle”), and in the standard Latvian term olis (“round pebble”), dialectally also ola. It is possible that Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), which would have become *wowan in Proto-Baltic, may have influenced the development of *wuolan into ola. A synonym term pauts was used alongside ola until the beginning of the 20th century, when ola became dominant and replaced it. Cognates include Lithuanian uolà (“cliff, rock”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [wōla]
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### Noun

ola f (4th declension)
* egg (reproductive cell, wrapped in a shell, where the embryo of certain animal species develops)
    vistu olas ― chicken (lit. hen) eggs
    zivju olas ― fish eggs
    olas čaumala ― eggshell
    olas baltums, dzeltenums ― the white, the yolk of the egg
    dēt olas ― to lay eggs
    rāpuļu olas pēc savas uzbūves atgādina putnu olas ― reptile eggs, by their structure, are similar to bird eggs
    olas vidū ir liels, barības vielām bagāts dzeltenums, kuram apkārt ir olbaltuma slānis ― in the middle of the egg there is a big yolk rich in nutrients, surrounded by a protein layer
    zivis vairojas ar olām jeb ikriem ― the fish reproduce with eggs, also called “ikri”
    odu mātītes olas dēj uz ūdens virsmas ― female mosquitoes lay eggs on water surfaces
* egg (said reproductive cell, usually from birds, used as food)
    cieti, mīksti vārīta ola ― hard-, soft-boiled egg
    cieta, mīksta ola ― hard-, soft-boiled egg
    nolobīt olu ― to peel an egg
    jēla ola ― raw egg (also: unexperienced, naive person)
    cepta ola ― fried egg
    pildīta ola ― stuffed egg
    olu kultenis ― scrambled eggs
    izdzert olu ― to drink an egg (= to suck the liquid through a hole on the eggshell)
    Lieldienu ola ― Easter egg (painted egg, part of the celebration of Easter)
    mums, kā vistu neturēja, tā olu pašiem nebija ― since we didn't keep hens, we didn't have eggs

#### Synonyms

* (of "fish eggs"): ikrs

#### Derived terms

* olbaltums
* olnīca

#### Related terms

* olis

### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ola”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

Probably related to Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”).

### Pronunciation

* (olà) IPA: [oːˈlɐ]
* (õla) IPA: [ˈǒːlɐ]

### Noun

olà f (plural õlos) stress pattern 4
* hole, burrow
    lapės ola ― a fox burrow
* cave, cavern

#### Synonyms

* urvas m

#### See also

* įdubimas m; skylė f

### References

* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
* ↑ Persian words in Indo-European
* 1 2 “ola” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
* “ola” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

### Further reading

* “ola”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
* “ola”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin olla.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ola f (plural olas)
* marmite

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Masovia):
** (Far Masovian) IPA: /ˈɔ.la/

### Interjection

ola
* (Far Masovian) wait!
    Ola, kóń nogo postrónek przestąpił. ― Wait, the horse crossed the tether with its leg.

### Further reading

* Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “ola”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 117

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ola.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈo.la/
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### Noun

ola f (plural olas)
* wave (a group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit)

## Rohingya
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /o.lɑ/

### Noun

ola
* he, doer. physician.

## Samoan
### Interjection

ola!
* An exclamation to mean wonderful.

### References

* Pratt, G. (1862). A Samoan dictionary: English and Samoan, and Samoan and English; with a short grammar of the Samoan dialect. Samoa: London Missionary Society's Press. Page 12.

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish olae, from Latin oleum (“oil”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔl̪ˠə/

### Noun

ola f (genitive singular ola, plural olaichean)
* oil

#### Derived terms

* ola ana-chuileag
* olach

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## South Efate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ola/

### Noun

ola
* spear
* (slang) penis

## Spanish
### Etymology

Perhaps from Latin undula (“wavelet”). Or, from Arabic هَوْل (hawl, “surge (of the sea, waves), fright”). Compare cognate Asturian fola.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

ola f (plural olas)
* wave (on the surface of a liquid)
    Synonym: onda
* (figuratively) sudden appearance of a large amount of something
    ola de calor ― heatwave
* Mexican wave

#### Derived terms

* estar en la cresta de la ola
* ola coreana
* oleada
* oleaje
* rompeolas

### Further reading

* “ola”, 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

### Anagrams

* aló, loá, loa

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈʔola/ [ˈʔoː.lɐ]
* Rhymes: -ola
* Syllabification: o‧la

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

ola (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜎ)
* eagerness; vehement desire

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish hola.

#### Interjection

ola (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜎ)
* (archaic) hello; hi
** 2021, Rolly Ongco Pasilan, Si Lorena at ang Kaharian ng mga Sirena:"Ola, Pawikana, magandang araw sa inyo, lalung-lalo na sa mga nagpopogihang mga binata, aheeey," sabi ni Vicera na halatang kinikilig nang makita ang dalawang sireno.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Derived terms

* mag-ola
* umola

### Further reading

* “ola”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* loa, alo, Lao

## Tongan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *ola, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada (“to exist”).

### Verb

ola
* to exist

## Turkish
### Verb

ola
* third-person singular optative of olmak

## Volapük
### Pronoun

ola
* (genitive singular of ol) your
** 1931, Arie de Jong, Gramat Volapüka, § 256:Edunol gudiko ad ekesumön reinajelömi ola.You did well to take your umbrella.

#### Synonyms

* olik

## Welsh
### Adjective

ola
* Alternative form of olaf (“last, final”)