Noun: ola
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | ola |
| Plural m | olas |
Sample Sentences
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Polo rabo da culler entra o gato na ola (By the spoon handle the cat enters the pot)
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amasa todo en huun et cozeo en ola noua ben cuberta de huun testo, que non posa ende sayr bafo nen fumo (knead everything together and cook it in a new pot, well covered by a lid, so that neither steam nor smoke come out) [1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:]
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Váian ao inferno a beber,
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Que a min ben me xiringaron
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E, entre mangas e riostras,
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Trecentos reás vöaron.
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Débenme, Dios sabe canto,
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O menos trint’e set’olas
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E coidaban os larpeiros
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De pagarmas con parolas. (Let them go to Hell to drink,
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because they harmed me very much
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and, among other things,
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three hundred reals flew away.
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They owe me God knows how much,
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at least a hundred and fifty gallons,
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and the gluttons thought of
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paying me with banter.) [c. 1840, Ramón Varela Vahamonde, Conversa entre os arrieiros:]
Nouns inflected like ola
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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). See: Latin Nouns '
ōlla', Spanish Nouns '
olla', Portuguese Nouns '
olha'.
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