Crossword clues for wallah
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wallah \Wal"lah\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also walla, "person employed (in some specified business)," Anglo-Indian, from Hindi -wala, suffix forming adjectives with the sense "pertaining to, connected with;" the functional equivalent of English -er (1). Europeans took it to mean "man, fellow" and began using it as a word.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context India English) A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example ''kitchen wallah''. 2 (context British slang English) A guy or bloke. Etymology 2
interj. (misspelling of voilà English)
WordNet
n. usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing; "a kitchen wallah"; "the book wallah"
Wikipedia
Wallah may refer to:
- Wallah (Arabic)
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-walla (or -wala, wali fem.), derived from Marathi and Hindustani वाला والا -vālā (suffix forming an adjectival compound with a noun or an agentive sense with a verb), an Indian surname or suffix indicating a person involved in some kind of activity, where they hail from or what they wear (Topiwala), for example:
- Dabbawala, lunch box deliverer
- Auto-walla, driver of an auto rickshaw
- Chaiwala, a boy or young man who serves tea
- Attar-walla, seller of perfumes and extracts
- Kulfi-walla, maker of Kulfi (Ice-cream)
- Kaan-saaf walla, ear cleaner
- Bottley-walla, recycler of printed material, bottles, and these days, electronic gadgets such as TVs
- Dudh-Walla, this is a caste, an accent and applies to milkmen
- Punkawallah, the servant who keeps the punkah or fan going on hot nights
- Dhobi walla, laundry worker.
Wala or Vala was also used in Parsi and Bohra surnames, suggesting the profession or a place-name. For example, Amroliwala, Daruwalla, seller of daru or Persian for wine, Mithaiwala (sweetseller)
By Allah (Arabic: ''Wallahi '', والله) is an Arabic expression meaning "[I promise] by God" used to make a promise or express great credibility on an expression. It is considered a sin among Muslims to use this phrase and follow it up with a lie. Also, some Muslims argue that this is one of the few valid ways of making a promise, the variant "I promise on myself" or "I promise on my own soul" not being allowed, in contrast to "I promise by the one who holds my soul". i.e. God. An alternative is Wallaahi, "By my God", often contracted by non-Arab populations in Africa to Wallai. Another meaning is "Really?", "Is that so?" (referring to "Do you swear on it?", used in spoken Arabic), "By God!" (this meaning has been adopted by Modern Hebrew slang as well).
The word also found its way into the Serbian language (вала, vala), presumably via Ottoman Turkish during the period of Ottoman rule.
The Spanish language word for approval 'olé' may have been derived from Andalusi Arabic during the Muslim rule of Iberia.
Category:Arabic words and phrases
Usage examples of "wallah".
He recalled how the street seemed inanely alive with the horrid cheer that haunted zoos and menageries, how the cries of bird sellers, of puppy wallahs and cat peddlers intermingled and created an eerie and disturbing echolalia, at once mocking of and mocked by the chatter of their caged and staring stock in trade.
Among the, Nadowessies or Dahcotahs, the subdivision has been still greater, the same original tribe having given birth to the Konsas, the Mandans, the Tetons, the Yangtongs, Sassitongs, Ollah-Gallahs, the Siones, the Wallah Wallahs, the Cayuses, the Black-feet, and lastly the Winnebagoes.
M'Kenzie, who conducted the third party from the Wallah- Wallah, navigated for several days up the south branch of the Columbia, named the Camoenum by the natives, but commonly called Lewis River, in honor of the first explorer.
When I did, it was to find myself in a pleasant, whitewashed room, with the sun slanting through wooden shutters, and a punkah wallah dozing against the wall, automatically twitching the string of his big fan.
When the film came to that section when the beleaguered garrison could hold out no longer, across the horizon came a few dozen topees piping "Over the seas to Skye", some short-muzzle Lee Enfields saying, "Cor blimey", and some gay young sahibs with punkah wallahs in attendance.