lalla
noun1
Historical In Persia, a kind of domestic tutor.
2
Historical In Persia, a male nurse.
3
India, Historical A native clerk who writes the vernacular.
4
India, Historical A respectable merchant.
- Where there are no tigers, the Lalla (scribe) becomes a shikaree.1841, Society in India, ii. 176:
- There were Hindu lallas from the piece-goods market of Bulandshahr, smartly dressed in silks; there were Kashmiri Muhammadans from the local carpet factories, immaculately clad in white cotton; […]1935, Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable: