Lalla

name, noun

name, noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    In Persia, a kind of domestic tutor. historical
  2. 2
    In Persia, a male nurse. historical
  3. 3
    A native clerk who writes the vernacular. India, historical
  4. 4
    A respectable merchant. India, historical

    "Where there are no tigers, the Lalla (scribe) becomes a shikaree."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A locality in the City of Launceston, northern Tasmania, Australia.

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"Lalla Fadhma n'Soumer was an important figure of the Kabylian resistance movement during the beginning of French colonization in North Africa."

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