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gola

gola is the alternative form of golah.

Meaning of golah

Noun

golah (plural golahs)

  1. (India, historical) A storehouse for grain or salt, typically having a circular wall of mud with a conical roof.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Gola

Gola

  1. A language spoken in eastern Liberia.
    • Most De speak Gola fluently and many also speak Vai.1971, Rural Africana (Michigan State University, Political Science Department / African Studies Center), issues 13-18, page 13
    • Nevertheless, some still remember how to speak Gola, occasionally uphold their Gola origins, and seem to reflect them in the orientation of certain social values.1994, Melissa Leach, Rainforest relations: gender and resource use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone, page 49

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Gola

Gola (plural Golas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of gola

Noun
pluralgolas
Proper noun
pluralGolas

Origin of gola

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Italian Gola, a topographic surname from gola (“ravine”) or a variant of Cola. * Borrowed from Polish Gola, a topographic surname from gola (“heath, moor; place without of trees”).

Questions about gola

What does gola mean?
Gola means a language spoken in eastern Liberia.
What is gola the alternative form of?
Gola is the alternative form of golah.
What part of speech is gola?
Gola is a proper noun.

Words near gola in the dictionary

  1. gokushovirus
  2. gokushoviruses
  3. gol
  4. Gol Gol
  5. gol-mol
  6. gola
  7. Golab
  8. Golabi-Ito-Hall syndrome
  9. golabki
  10. golabkis
  11. goladar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gola (page history and authors); Gola (page history and authors); golah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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