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Wallah, -walla, -wala, or -vala (-wali fem.), is a suffix used in a number of Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali or Marathi. It forms an adjectival compound from a noun or an agent noun from a verb. [ 1 ]
In American radio, film, television, and video games, walla is a sound effect imitating the murmur of a crowd in the background. [1] A group of actors brought together in the post-production stage of film production to create this murmur is known as a walla group.
In India, the punkhawallah or pankha wallah was the servant who operated the fan, often using a pulley system. [2] French Indochina courtroom equipped with punkah fans.
Wallah or Wala, a suffix in several Indo-Aryan languages; Other. Wala (goddess), a sun goddess in Australian aboriginal spirituality; Weighted Average Loan Age, a ...
In Maharashtra, the Dhobi are found throughout the state, and are also known as Parit.They claim to have originally belonged to the Rajput community, and in particular the Chauhan clan.
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A chaiwala prepares masala chai on a coal fire in a street of Kolkata.. A chaiwala (also transliterated as chaiwalah or chaiwallah; Urdu: چائےوالا, Hindi: चायवाला) is a tea-seller in the Indian subcontinent. [1]
[2] [3] [4] An edition of Hobson-Jobson from this period similarly defined a boxwallah as "a native itinerant peddler" who "sells cutlery, cheap nick-nacks, and small wares of all kinds, chiefly European", [5] as did another dictionary of slang. [6] The word was a combination of "box" and "wallah". [5]