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autowallah

autowallah noun: driver, chauffeur (especially of an autorickshaw).

Noun

autowallah (plural autowallahs)

  1. (India) driver, chauffeur (especially of an autorickshaw)
    • "I have hired an autowallah, Kulwinder Singh, to drop me to college every day," he says.2016 May 29, “It’s bhangra and bhaichara for Africans in Punjab”, in The Times of India

Forms of autowallah

pluralautowallahs

Origin of autowallah

From auto- + wallah.

Questions about autowallah

What does autowallah mean?
Autowallah means driver, chauffeur (especially of an autorickshaw).
What part of speech is autowallah?
Autowallah is a noun.
What is the plural of autowallah?
The plural of autowallah is autowallahs.

Words near autowallah in the dictionary

  1. autovivifying
  2. autovivisection
  3. AUTOVON
  4. autowalk
  5. autowalks
  6. autowallah
  7. autowallahs
  8. autowave
  9. autowaves
  10. autowind
  11. autowinder

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