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  2. Wallah - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Singlish vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    help (lah) – please, do lend me a hand by desisting from whatever it is you are doing; help me out here. E.g. "Help lah, stop hitting on my sister." (Please, stop flirting with my sister.) ice cream – not up to par or expectation. E.g. "Wah a simple task you also fail, you damn ice-cream sia." jam – can also mean traffic congestion. A ...

  4. Voila - Wikipedia

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    [v-wAH-lAH] means "here it is!" or "look at this!" in French; is used to call attention to something that has just been done or explained; Voilà, also known as Comcel Haiti, a phone company in Haiti; La belle que voilà, a novel by Louis Hémon; Voila, Brașov, a commune in Romania

  5. Singlish - Wikipedia

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    Singlish (a portmanteau of Singapore and English), formally known as Colloquial Singaporean English, is an English-based creole language originating in Singapore. [1] [2] [3] Singlish arose out of a situation of prolonged language contact between speakers of many different Asian languages in Singapore, such as Malay, Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin, Teochew, and Tamil. [4]

  6. Hokkien profanity - Wikipedia

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    For example, Mái kā i chhap-siâu lah! (Don't care about it!). – Others – Pe̍h-ōe-jī Hàn-jī literal meaning English translation Notes kha-chhng: 尻川 ass buttocks or anus lín chó͘-má: 恁祖媽 your grandmother first personal pronoun Used by female speakers as a rude modality, see Hokkien pronouns. lín niâ: 恁娘 your mother ...

  7. Manglish - Wikipedia

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    An example is suffixing sentences with lah, as in, "Don't be so worried-lah", which is usually used to present a sentence as rather light-going and not so serious; the suffix has no specific meaning. However, Chinese languages also make abundant use of the suffix lah and there is some disagreement as to which language it was originally borrowed ...

  8. What does 'lala bop' mean? What parents need to know to ... - AOL

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    The term "lala bop" has surfaced on social media and is being used primarily by teens to bully others online, leaving parents to ask: What does lala bop mean?

  9. Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un - Wikipedia

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    Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un (Arabic: إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ, ʾinnā li-llāhi wa-ʾinnā ʾilayhi rājiʿūn a), also known as Istirja (Arabic: إِسْتِرْجَاع, ʾIstirjāʿ), is an Arabic phrase, mentioned in the second surah of the Quran, [1] and meaning "Indeed ...