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walla

walla 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

Proper noun capitalized: Walla

Walla (plural Wallas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of walla

Noun
pluralwallas
Proper noun
pluralWallas

Words formed from walla

Phrases with walla

Questions about walla

What does walla mean?
Walla means a surname.
What is walla the alternative spelling of?
Walla is the alternative spelling of wallah.
What part of speech is walla?
Walla is a proper noun.

Words near walla in the dictionary

  1. wall-table
  2. wall-tables
  3. wall-to-wall
  4. wall-wart
  5. wall-warts
  6. walla
  7. Walla Walla
  8. Walla Walla County
  9. Walla Wallas
  10. wallaba
  11. Wallabadah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: walla (page history and authors); Walla (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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