lalla

plural lallas

1. historicalIn Persia, a kind of domestic tutor.
2. historicalIn Persia, a male nurse.
3. IndiahistoricalA native clerk who writes the vernacular.
4. IndiahistoricalA respectable merchant.

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

   1841, Society in India, ii. 176

   1 more example

   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

plural Lallas

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