• ola, ollah, ollay

From Tamil ஓலை (ōlai).

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊleɪ/
• Homophone: olé

olay (countable and uncountable, plural olays)

1. palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a steel-tipped stylus
   • 1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India:

     In the Peninsula of India, the Olay are prepared from the leaves of the palmyra palm.

• “olay”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Loya, Yola, yoal, yola

Borrowed from Turkish olay.

• IPA^(key): [oɫɑj]
• Hyphenation: o‧lay

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olay (definite accusative olayı, plural olaylar)

1. event, happening

   Synonym: hadisə

Borrowed from Turkish olay. By surface analysis, ol- +‎ -ay.

• IPA^(key): /u̯oˈɫɑj/
• Hyphenation: o‧lay

olay (definite accusative olayı, plural olaylar)

1. event, incident

• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “olay”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 122

olay

1. old

From ol- (“to happen”) +‎ -ay. A 1930s coinage,^[1] displaced Ottoman Turkish derivatives hâl, hadise and others.

• IPA^(key): /oɫɑj/
• Hyphenation: o‧lay

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olay (definite accusative olayı, plural olaylar)

1. event, happening

   Synonyms: vaka, hadise

2. (informal) thing (a genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists)
3. (slang) very impressive, eye-catching

   Kombinin olay resmen!

   Your outift slays!

   aşko insta'da bi' çocuk bulmuşum var ya olay

   gurl I've found a boy on insta he's hot

• hadise
• vaka

• olaylı
• olaysız

• → Azerbaijani: olay
• → Gagauz: olay