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Indonesian TikToker with more than 2 million followers jailed after saying Islamic phrase before eating pork (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml to c/offbeat

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

“wallah” is or “oh my god” among christians.

TIL that "wallah" is a religious phrase

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It basically means “I swear to god”

[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wallah wallah wallah uh, tell me more, tell me more...

[–] GreyEyedGhost 1 points 2 years ago

Wallah, the sound, has a number of roots. I'd only heard it used as an anglicized version of voila, which is relatively recent in the English language and started as a joke.

Here's a link from someone who put in more work researching this than I can bother with.