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wala

wala is the alternative spelling of wallah.

Meaning of wallah

Noun

wallah (plural wallahs)

  1. (India, North) A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah.
    • Kindly take one of my cigarettes, sir. Do you not admire my new silver case, sir? From the boxwallah, two rupees eight annas.1931, George Orwell, A Hanging
  2. (UK, slang) A guy or bloke.

See all 3 meanings of wallah

Forms of wala

pluralwalas

Questions about wala

What is wala the alternative spelling of?
Wala is the alternative spelling of wallah.

Words near wala in the dictionary

  1. Wal-Mart
  2. Wal-Marted
  3. Wal-Marting
  4. Wal-Marts
  5. Wal.
  6. wala
  7. Walach
  8. Walachia
  9. Walachian
  10. Walachians
  11. Walachs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wala (page history and authors); wallah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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