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Best Occupational Name Ever?
- iobug 5y agoThis is very common in India, especially in the Parsi community. There's Screw-wala, Tyre-wala, Daaru-wala/vala (Daaru in some Indian languages is drinkable alcohol), Ganja-wala (Ganja is weed), so on and so forth. The suffix "Wala" means a sort of ownership or such. So an Ice-cream vendor, in some Indian languages, would be "Ice cream wala". Same with a Tyre-store owner, Tyre-wala. And these surnames took after the trades their families were involved in. So the local pub owner's surname became Daaru-wala. Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehan_Daruvala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehan_Daruvala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Screwvala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Screwvala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Tyrewala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Tyrewala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunal_Ganjawala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunal_Ganjawala