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sola

sola is the alternative form of shola.

Meaning of shola

Noun (1)

shola (countable and uncountable, plural sholas)

  1. A wild plant of species Aeschynomene aspera, found in Bengal and Assam, having a milky-white, spongy pith used for the manufacture of pith helmets and decorative artifacts.

Noun (2)

shola (plural sholas)

  1. (India, historical) A wooded ravine; a thicket.
    • At daylight […] we left the Sisipara bungalow, and rode for several miles through a valley interspersed with sholas of rhododendron trees.1862, Markham, Peru and India, page 356

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Sola

Sola (plural Solas)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Sola

Sola

  1. A municipality of Rogaland, Norway.

Forms of sola

pluralSolas

Origin of sola

From Hindi सोला (solā, “the plant Aeschynomene aspera”), from Bengali শোলা (śōla).

Borrowed from Norwegian Sola.

Phrases with sola

Questions about sola

What does sola mean?
Sola means a surname.
What is sola the alternative form of?
Sola is the alternative form of shola.
What part of speech is sola?
Sola is a proper noun.

Words near sola in the dictionary

  1. sol-gel
  2. sol-gels
  3. sol-lunar
  4. Sol.
  5. Sol. Song
  6. sola
  7. sola ecclesia
  8. sola gratia
  9. sola scriptura
  10. sola topee
  11. sola topees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sola (page history and authors); Sola (page history and authors); shola (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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