olé

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

English

Etymology

From the Spanish olé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oʊˈleɪ/

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• Homophone: olay

Interjection

olé

1. An expression of excitement. Hooray!

Translations

Expression

• French: olé (fr)
• Japanese: オーレ (ōre)
• Spanish: olé (es)

Anagrams

• EOL, Elo, LEO, Leo, Loe, OEL, elo, leo

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.

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

Further reading

• “olé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014