paanwallah
English
Alternative forms
- paanwala
Etymology
From Hindi.
Noun
paanwallah (plural paanwallahs)
- (South Asia) Someone who sells paan.
- 1994, Nurjehan Aziz, Her Mother's Ashes:
- Shuffling his feet in the sand, head bowed low, Joseph stopped at the paanwallah for tea.
- 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 97:
- She looked the exact image of Mother India on calendars Victor had seen in paanwala’s shops.
- 1994, Nurjehan Aziz, Her Mother's Ashes: