olah

Inherited from Malay olah, further etymology is unknown.^[1] The verbal sense is perhaps a semantic loan from Javanese ꦲꦺꦴꦭꦃ (olah, “to prepare”, literally “to practice”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈolah/ [ˈo.lah]
• Rhymes: -olah
• Syllabification: o‧lah

olah (plural olah-olah) (chiefly dialectal or obsolete)

1. manner, action, act; especially of something bad

   Synonym: ulah

2. trick; prank

olah (active mengolah, passive diolah)

1. to process

   Mereka mengolah daging itu menjadi bakso.

   They process the meat into meatballs.

   Data sedang diolah.

   The data is being processed.

• “olah”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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• (schwa-variety, /a/-variety, Baku, Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈolah/ [ˈo.lah]
• Rhymes: -lah, -ah
• Hyphenation: o‧lah

olah (Jawi spelling اوله, plural olah-olah or olah²)

1. manner; way; style (of doing something).

   Synonyms: cara, gaya

2. whim; caprice; trick; attitude (often used in negative contexts like being fussy or difficult).

   Synonyms: kerenah, ragam

   Budak itu banyak olahnya.

   That child has many whims (is very fussy).

olah (Jawi spelling اوله, active mengolah, third-person passive diolah)

1. (root) to process; to cultivate; to work on (raw materials, data, or ideas).

• "olah" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Borrowed from Hungarian oláh, from Old Church Slavonic влахъ (vlaxŭ), from Proto-Slavic *volxъ, itself of Germanic origin. Doublet of valah and vlah.

olah m (plural olahi)

1. (archaic) Vlach, Romanian
2. (archaic) Wallachian

olah m or n (feminine singular olahă, masculine plural olahi, feminine/neuter plural olahe)

1. (archaic) Vlach, Romanian
2. (archaic) Wallachian