chola

Borrowed from Spanish chola.

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chola (plural cholas)

1. A female cholo (Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody with similar characteristics).

• loach, Loach, HOLAC, Olcha

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *čolaCa. Cognate with Choctaw chula (“fox”) and Chickasaw chula (“fox”)

chola

1. fox

From Assamese চোলা (süla).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕola/

chola (Bengali script চোলা)

1. shirt

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

• chula (Humes' spelling)

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *čolaCa.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃo.la/

chola (alienable)

1. fox

• Spelling variants
  • chula
  • čola (Mississippi)

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *čolaCa. Cognate with Chickasaw chola, Alabama chola, Creek culv

• IPA^(key): /tʃʊlá/

chola (alienable)

1. fox

Shortening from cachola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔla/ [ˈt͡ʃɔ.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔla

chola f (plural cholas)

1. (colloquial) head; mind, mindset

   Synonyms: cabeza, cachola, chencha, croca, testa

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chola”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chola”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from Assamese চোলা (süla).

chola

1. shirt

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *čolaCa.

chola

1. fox

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃola/ [ˈt͡ʃo.la]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: cho‧la

chola f (plural cholas)

1. female equivalent of cholo
2. (colloquial) noggin; head
3. (colloquial) brains; know-how
4. (colloquial, Venezuela, Canary Islands) sandal, flip-flop
5. (Venezuela) any of various loricariid or auchenipterid catfish, such as Ageneiosus sp., Rineloricaria caracasensis, or Rineloricaria formosa

• → Ye'kwana: choda, chooda

chola f

1. feminine singular of cholo

• “chola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• cholla

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish chola, feminine of cholo. Possibly popularized via social media from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories where cholos were featured. Also said to be a play of English so +‎ landi (“flirt”), as in cho landi (“so flirtatious”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃola/ [ˈt͡ʃoː.lɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈtsola/ [ˈt͡soː.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: cho‧la

chola (masculine cholo, Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ) (slang)

1. female hipster, street gang member, or somebody with similar characteristics

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-chola

1. to pick up

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