Lola

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lola"

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *delh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁éyeti

Proto-Italic *doleō

Latin doleō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin dolor

Old Spanish dolor

Spanish dolor

Spanish dolores

Spanish Dolores

Spanish Lolabor.

English Lola

Borrowed from Spanish Lola.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊlə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊlə/
• Rhymes: -əʊlə

Proper noun

Lola

1. A female given name from Spanish.
   • 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Girls' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 91:

     What lovely names for girls there are!
     There's Stella like the Evening Star,
     And Sylvia like a rustling tree,
     And Lola like a melody,

   • 1970, Ray Davies, “Lola”, performed by The Kinks:

     She walked up to me and she asked me to dance / I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola

Related terms

• Lolita

Anagrams

• 'allo, -alol, allo, allo-, lalo, olla

Dutch

Etymology

From Spanish Lola.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Lola f

1. a female given name from Spanish

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Lola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔ.la/, /lo.la/

Proper noun

Lola f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

• Popular given name in France in the 2000s and the 2010s.

Anagrams

• allô

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.la/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: Lo‧la

Etymology 1

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Proper noun

Lola f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Karolina

Declension

Declension of Lola

	singular	plural
nominative	Lola	Lole
genitive	Loli	Lol
dative	Loli	Lolom
accusative	Lolę	Lole
instrumental	Lolą	Lolami
locative	Loli	Lolach
vocative	Lolu	Lole

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Lola f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Karola

Declension

Declension of Lola

	singular	plural
nominative	Lola	Lole
genitive	Loli	Lol
dative	Loli	Lolom
accusative	Lolę	Lole
instrumental	Lolą	Lolami
locative	Loli	Lolach
vocative	Lolu	Lole

Etymology 3

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *delh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁éyeti

Proto-Italic *doleō

Latin doleō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin dolor

Old Spanish dolor

Spanish dolor

Spanish dolores

Spanish Dolores

Spanish Lolabor.

Polish Lola

Borrowed from Spanish Lola.

Proper noun

Lola f

1. a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Lola

Declension

Declension of Lola

	singular	plural
nominative	Lola	Lole
genitive	Loli	Lol
dative	Loli	Lolom
accusative	Lolę	Lole
instrumental	Lolą	Lolami
locative	Loli	Lolach
vocative	Lolu	Lole

Etymology 4

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Proper noun

Lola f

1. Lola (a prefecture of Guinea)
2. Lola (a town in Lola prefecture, Guinea)

Declension

Declension of Lola

	singular
nominative	Lola
genitive	Loli
dative	Loli
accusative	Lolę
instrumental	Lolą
locative	Loli
vocative	Lolu

Further reading

• “Lola”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *delh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁éyeti

Proto-Italic *doleō

Latin doleō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin dolor

Old Spanish dolor

Spanish dolor

Spanish dolores

Spanish Dolores

Spanish Lola

A diminutive of Dolores. Apocope of a kiddish form of Dolores.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlola/ [ˈlo.la]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: Lo‧la

Proper noun

Lola f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Dolores, from Old Spanish [in turn from Latin]

Derived terms

• Lolita

Descendants

• English: Lola
• French: Lola
• Swedish: Lola

Anagrams

• Lalo
• olla

Swedish

Etymology

From Spanish Lola, first recorded as a Swedish given name in 1893. Has also been used as a pet form of Carola and Viola.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Lola c (genitive Lolas)

1. a female given name

Anagrams

• olla

Tagalog

Etymology

See lola.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlola/ [ˈloː.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: Lo‧la

Noun

Lola (masculine Lolo, Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜎ)

1. honorific used before the name of a grandmother: Grandma; Grandmama; Granny

   Lola Basyang ― Grandma Gervaise

Anagrams

• lalo

Uzbek

Other scripts

Arabic	Afghan Uzbek	—
	Yangi Imlo	—
Cyrillic		Лола
Latin		Lola

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai لاله (lʾlh), from Classical Persian لَالَه (lāla, “tulip”).

Proper noun

Lola

1. a female given name from Persian, meaning “tulip”