olé

See also: ole, Ole, OLE, öle, Öle, -ole, and 'Ole

English

Etymology

From the Spanish olé.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /oʊˈleɪ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Homophone: olay

Interjection

olé

  1. An expression of excitement. Hooray!

Translations

Anagrams

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /oˈle/ [oˈle]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: o‧lé

Etymology 1

Unknown. Often supposed to be from Arabic الله‎ (allāh, “God!”), used e.g. to express surprise, excitement, etc., and/or from related وَاللهِ‎ (wa-llāhi, “by God!”), used as an oath or strong agreement. The Spanish Arabist Federico Corriente, however, described this derivation as "falsos arabismos" (false Arabism) in his work Diccionario de Arabismos y Voces Afines en Iberorromance.[1][2]

Interjection

olé

  1. an expression of encouragement and approval

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

olé

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of oler

References
  1. Kaye, Alan S. (2005), “Two Alleged Arabic Etymologies”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies‎, volume 64, issue 2, DOI:10.1086/431686, pages 109–111
  2. Corriente, Federico (1999) Diccionario de Arabismos y Voces Afines en Iberorromance (Dictionary of Arabisms and Related Words in Ibero-Romance), Gredo, pages 485–596

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