wallah

Meanings

Noun

• A servant or other person responsible for something, often specified before it, for example kitchen wallah.
• A guy or bloke.

Adverb

• by God (Allah); may God be my witness

Interjection

• Misspelling of voilà

Origin

• Either from Hindi -वाला ("pertaining to") or from Hindi वाला ("person in charge"), from Sanskrit पाल ("protector"), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ("protect").
• From Arabic وَٱللّٰه.