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ola

ola is the alternative form of olay.

Meaning of olay

Noun

olay (countable and uncountable, plural olays)

  1. palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a steel-tipped stylus
    • In the Peninsula of India, the Olay are prepared from the leaves of the palmyra palm.1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Ola

Ola

  1. A female given name used in the U.S. in the end of the nineteenth century.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ola

Ola (plural Olas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of ola

Noun
pluralolas
Proper noun
pluralOlas

Origin of ola

Various origins: * Borrowed from Yoruba Ọlá. Ọlá is an extremely common prefix for Yoruba names (and serves as a common form of shortened names), coming from ọlá (“honor”) * Borrowed from Spanish Ola, a habitational surname from Basque ola (“forge”).

Words formed from ola

Phrases with ola

Questions about ola

What does ola mean?
Ola means a female given name used in the U.S. in the end of the nineteenth century.
What is ola the alternative form of?
Ola is the alternative form of olay.
What part of speech is ola?
Ola is a proper noun.

Words near ola in the dictionary

  1. Ol Cemet'
  2. Ol Chiki
  3. Ol Onal
  4. ol'
  5. Ol.
  6. ola
  7. Ola hu Uber
  8. olacaceous
  9. olachen
  10. oladi
  11. Oladipo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ola (page history and authors); Ola (page history and authors); olay (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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