dola

• Homophones: dolas, dolât

dola

1. third-person singular past historic of doler

From English dollar.

• IPA^(key): /dola/

dola

1. dollar

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 53

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔlˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɞlˠə/

From Middle English thole (“peg”), from Old English þol, þoll (“oar-pin, rowlock; thole”), from Proto-Germanic *þullaz, *þullō (“beam; thole”).

dola m (genitive singular dola, nominative plural dolaí)

1. thole-pin
2. (wooden) peg

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “dola”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 255
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “dola”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “dola”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

From Old Irish dolud.^[1]

• doladh, dolaidh

dola m (genitive singular dola, nominative plural dolaí)

1. harm, damage
2. loss, distress
3. charge, expense
4. imposition, burden
5. toll
6. tax, tribute

• bóthar dola
• doladhroichead, droichead dola
• dola-phlás, plás dola

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “dolaiḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 255
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “dola”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “dola”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dola m

1. inflection of dol (“snare”):
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/vocative/dative plural

dolā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dolō

• "dola", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtola/

dola

1. accusative/genitive singular of dolla

-dola

1. to swim

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From English dollar.

dola

1. dollar

• dóla (“good luck”) (Far Masovian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dòľa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: do‧la

dola f

1. (dated or poetic) destiny, fate
2. (colloquial, crime) cut (share of goods from a robbery)

• dola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wanda Decyk-Zięba, editor (2018-2022), “dola”, in Dydaktyczny Słownik Etymologiczno-historyczny Języka Polskiego [A Didactic, Historical, Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), →ISBN

• dóla

Borrowed from English dollar. Doublet of dólar.

dola f (plural dolas)

1. (Azores) dollar

   Synonym: dólar

   • 1988, João de Melo, Gente Feliz com Lágrimas, Portugal: D. Quixote, →ISBN, page unumbered:

     Cartas e cartas, e outra vez cartas, entende?, a maioria das quais recebia como resposta uma «dola» dobrada e suja de terra, meia folha rabiscada à pressa onde se lia o sermão da paciência e da conformação: o governo do Canadá estava dificultando tudo, modificara as leis da emigração e vinha cancelando vistos e contratos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2010, Arnaldo Dias Baptista, “Calafonas”, in Raizes^[sic], Bloomington: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 27:

     […] agora sou migrante / nesta nova nação / daquí é que já ninguém me tira / e as dólas / é a minha nova moeda / é o meu melhor pão.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • [2014, Laura Areias, “Triste Saga da Emigração Açoriana para os USA, até que inventaram o Portenglish - na ficção de Onésimo Teotónio Almeida”, in Louis Imperiale, Thaís Leão Vieira, editors, Perspectivas do humor: estudos do humor Luso-Hispânico, São Paulo: Verona, →ISBN, page unumbered:

     […] curiosa e divertida também, é a mudança de género: uma dola, porque em inglês, a dollar, o artigo indefinido transforma-se em definido feminino porque o sufixo do género em português é ‘a’.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)]

   • 2025, Pedro Almeida Maia, chapter 8, in Condenação — A história de um gangster açoriano na América, Lisbon: Cultura Editora, →ISBN, page unumbered:

     Os Açores podiam ter moeda própria, mas não se podia compará-la à possança das dolas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Coelho, Leonardo (8 November 2021), Sotaque e expressões dos AÇORES - São Miguel‎^[2] (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Portuguese With Leo, via YouTube

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Borrowed from English dollar.^[1]

dola class IX (plural dola class X)

1. dollar

Borrowed from Arabic دَوْلَة (dawla).^[2]

dola class V (plural madola class VI)

1. state (sovereign polity)

• nchi
• taifa