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Hola has also been proposed to have come from Arabic. [4] However, the suggested derivations from Arabic of both olé and hola are disputed and they are described by the Spanish Arabist Federico Corriente as " falsos arabismos " (false Arabisms ) in his work Diccionario de arabismos y voces afines en iberorromance .
Hola (VPN), a web and mobile application; holA, a bacterial gene; Hola Airlines, a former Spanish airline based in Palma de Mallorca, Majorca; Cyclone Hola, a strong tropical cyclone of the Pacific; Hola Mohalla, a Sikh festival; Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors, a not-for-profit, arts service and advocacy organization
The less extreme meaning, which is used in most Spanish-speaking countries, translates more or less as "jackass". The term, however, has highly offensive connotations in Puerto Rico. An older usage was in reference to a man who is in denial about being cheated (for example, by his wife).
Hala" is a word of Arabic origin meaning "Come on". [5] "¡Hala Madrid!" is also the title of Real Madrid's official anthem (commonly known as "Las mocitas madrileñas" after a line in the lyrics) commissioned by former president Santiago Bernabéu to commemorate the golden jubilee of the club in 1952. [6]
Musically, "No Se Me Quita" is a Spanish language dancehall song, [11] [16] [17] written by Jesús Herrera, Oscar Hernández, Maluma, Andrés Castro, Servando Primera, and Édgar Barrera. Its production was handled by Barrera, [ 18 ] and the song features very soft urban rhythms and elements of pop and tropical .
Cholo (Spanish pronunciation:) is a loosely defined Spanish term that has had various meanings. Its origin is a somewhat derogatory term for people of mixed-blood heritage in the Spanish Empire in Latin America and its successor states as part of castas, the informal ranking of society by heritage.
from Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl xocolatl meaning "hot water" or from a combination of the Mayan word chocol meaning "hot" and the Nahuatl word atl meaning "water." Choctaw from the native name Chahta of unknown meaning but also said to come from Spanish chato (="flattened") because of the tribe's custom of flattening the heads of male infants.
¡Hola! was founded in Barcelona on 2 September 1944 [4] [5] by Antonio Sánchez Gómez, who continued to run the magazine until his death in the 1970s. He employed mainly relatives and to this day ¡Hola! remains a predominantly family run organisation, with Sánchez's wife still stepping in to provide layout for important royal wedding spreads.