what's the meaning of hola?
used especially among Latin Americans to attract attention or to shout Latin Americans Latin Americans . From 1520s as a command to "stop, cease," from French holà (15c.), which "Century Dictionary" analyzes as ho! + la "there." As an urban slang form of holler (v.) "greet, shout out to," it was in use by 2003. shout to call attention, 1781, earlier hollo, holla (also see hello).