Wallah Definition
wälä
noun
One employed in a particular occupation or activity.
A kitchen wallah; rickshaw wallahs.
American Heritage
A person associated with a specified thing, function, or place.
A punkah-wallah.
Webster's New World
interjection
Common misspelling of voilà.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Wallah
Noun
Singular:
wallah
Plural:
wallahsOrigin of Wallah
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From Hindi -vālā n. suff. indicating the person concerned with an item or engaged in an activity from Prakrit pāla- keeper from Sanskrit pālaḥ protector, herdsman from pālayati he brings across safely (as for example animals at a ford), protects variant of pārayati per-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Either from Hindi -वाला (-vālā, “pertaining to") or from Hindi वाला (-vālā, “person in charge"), from Sanskrit पाल (pāla, “protector"), from Proto-Indo-European *pehâ‚‚- (“protect").
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