wàhálà
noun
/wà.há.là/
وَهَلَ (alternative), wàálà (alternative)
Definitions
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trouble, problem, difficulty
Similar words
Etymology
From Hausa wàhalā̀, from Arabic وَهْلَة (wahla, “fright, terror”).
Listed as a similar word by
These words list this one in their own definitions. This word does not list them back, so Wiktionary records the link in one direction only.
The meaning shown next to each is the one that named this word.
distress, predicament, desperation, affliction
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
wahalaKriowahalaNigerian PidginwahálaPichinglis
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “wahala”.
Reference:
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