How to say "come on!, let's go (Arabic and Israeli slang)" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningcome on!, let's go (Arabic and Israeli slang)
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
يَلَّا
yallaילא
يلا
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
יאללה
yallaيَالَّا
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
A contraction of يَا اللّٰه, yā allāh — 'O God!' — worn smooth into the all-purpose 'let's go' of the whole Middle East. Israeli Hebrew took it as יאללה, its busiest hurry-up word, even splicing it onto English in יאללה ביי.
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In a phrase
يَلَّا يَا شَبَاب
yalla yā shabābילא יא שבאבcome on, guys
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