Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dudhwallah

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dud-hwal-lah
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A milkman or milkwoman.

Indian usage

Example Sentences

"[…] the butter comes out of a tin, and so does the milk, unless it is the grey watery catlap of the dudh-wallah."
"2004, Neela Vaswani, "Possession at the Tomb of Sayyed Pir Hazrat Baba Bahadur Saheed Rah Aleh" in Where the Long Grass Bends, Sarabande Books, 2012, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZQ5XgmT63mwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The dudh-wallah hands Nanak a large cup of lassi and a small cup of milk."

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi दूधवाला (dūdhvālā, “milkman”). See wallah.

Origin

Source language: Hindi

Word Breakdown

Root: दूधवाला

Usage

Indian usage

Inflected Forms

dudhwallahs (plural) dudhwalla (alternative) dudh-wallah (alternative)

Questions

What does dudhwallah mean?: A milkman or milkwoman.
Where does dudhwallah come from?: It is traced to Hindi.

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