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Is “whala” an adaptation from the French “voilá” or of a different origin?

• logicslave 6y ago
  Its me not caring about the spelling haha...
  • TN1ck 6y ago
    Could be confused with "Vallah" though in this case: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vallah https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vallah
  • Cthulhu_ 6y ago
    Few things nerdsnipe the HN crowd like a misspelling, lol.
• jayd16 6y ago
  Its a boneappletea-ism.
• deleted 6y ago
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• beagle3 6y ago
  Not clear. Look at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wallah#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wallah#Etymology_2 wallah is arabic slang for "by god" voila is french for "look there", meaning "just look at that" They are totally different semantically interjections originally, yet one fits almost everywhere the other does, and if Wiktionary is to be believed, in Danish one is a spelling for the other.