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wallah: Arabic → German · Lexodus

Unreviewed (from Wiktionary)Arabic exportsBeyond English

wallah

Borrowed from Arabic وَٱللّٰه (wal-lāh, “I swear by God”), likely via Turkish valla.

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 1450

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.