Catchword: yalla

Filed under: Arabic

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: “Yalla, yalla!” (-Term in arabic. Meaning: “Come on! Let’s go! Hurry!” -In local slang: “Yalla” = “bling,” “foreign-ness,” often assigned to an area with special “yalla”-characteristics, or used about those areas’ (the eastside’s) teenage gangs, like in: “…man, did you meet that fuckin yalla-gang over there? they stole my mobile,man!”-The word can also have positive connotations, as something with attitude, cool, quirky in a foreign way…I think this vignette has got “yalla”!:)

Article or document title:
“Salaam, Habibi” (URL)

Author:
“The X”

Article, document, publication, web site:
Electric_Dreams

Publishing location:
Norway

Date of publication:
Feb. 2, 2005

This catchword has yet to be researched.