Wallah
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Wallah may refer to:
- Wallah (Arabic), an oath meaning "By Allah"
- -wallah (or -wala), derived from Hindi/Urdu वाला والا -vālā (suffix forming an adjectival compound with a noun or an agentive sense with a verb),[1] an Indian suffix indicating a person involved in some kind of activity, for example:
- Dabbawala, lunch box deliverer
- Auto-wallah, driver of an auto rickshaw
- Chai-wallah, a boy or young man who serves tea
- Attar-wallah, seller of perfumes and extracts
- Kulfi-wallah, maker of Kulfi (Ice-cream)
- Bottley-wallah, recycler of printed material, bottles, and these days, electronic gadgets such as TVs
- Dudh-Wallah, this is a caste, an accent and applies to milkmen
- Punkawallah, The servant who keeps the punkah going on hot nights
- Dhobi wallah, laundry worker.
- Dole-wallah, one who is unemployed and collects Job Seekers allowance (in the UK) without any intention of finding gainful employment.
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- ^ R. S. McGregor, ed (1997). The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. 915. ISBN 9780198643395.
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