Nullah

Definition: Nullah

Nullah

Noun

1. A ravine or gully in southern Asia.

Date "nullah" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

"Nullah" is a common misspelling or typo for: Mullah.

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A. A term used in the desert regions of India and Pakistan for a sandy river bed or channel, or a small ravine or gully, that is normally dry except after a heavy rain b. The small, intermittent, generally torrential stream that flows through a nullah. Etymol: Hindi nala. See also:wadi; arroyo. Also spelled:nulla; nallah; nalla. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "nullah"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rrymë (current, drift, effluent, jet, Niagara, onflow, outpour, rain, spurt, squirt, stream, thrashing-floor, threshing floor, tide, wave), përrua (Beck, bourn, Bourne, branch, Brook, brooklet, Creek, flow, rain, small river, Spruit, stream, streamlet, torrent, watercourse). (various references)

Bulgarian		поток (current, flow, gush, onflow, pour, river, run, runnel, shower, stream, tide), дере (donga, gullet). (various references)

Hungarian		vízmosás (corridor, couloir, donga, gulch, gullet, gully, ravine). (various references)

Pig Latin		ullahnay

Portuguese		sem força legal, curso de água (flow, river, stream, watercourse, waterway). (various references)

Russian		ручей (bourn, brook, creek, floss, groove, rivulet, run, stream, watercourse), высохшее русло. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vodeni tok (water course, waterway), suvo rečno korito. (various references)

Spanish		río (drift, river, stream), corriente (accepted, air blast, bread and butter, common, crosscurrent, current, current flow, current month, drift, easy, familiar, flow, flowing, general, going, juice, normal, onflow, ordinary, outpour, popular, prevalent, rain, regular, running, staple, stream, swim, tendency, tide, topic, topical, unexceptional), cauce (bed, bowl, channel, riverbed, Wadi, watercourse). (various references)

Swedish		flådfara. (various references)

Ukranian		струмок (arroyo, bourn, dribble, effluent, nymph, rivulet, streamlet, wash, watercourse, wellspring), ущелина (couloir, crevice, defile, hope, notch, opening, pass, purgatory, ravine, rift), річка (arroyo, nymph, river, stream). (various references)

Vietnamese		dòng nước (back-set, streamline). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nullah": nullahs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "nullah" (pronounced 'Nul"lah'): Allah, Bablah, Bismillah, Delilah, Fellah, Kholah, Kiblah, Mollah, Moplah, mullah, pallah, Selah, Wallah, Yalah, Zillah. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-l-l-n-u"
	-1 letter: ahull, uhlan.
	-2 letters: hall, haul, hula, hull, luna, null, ulan, ulna.
	-3 letters: all, hun, nah.
	-4 letters: ah, al, an, ha, la, na, nu, uh, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-l-l-n-u"
	+1 letter: nullahs.
	+2 letters: turnhall, unhallow, unlethal.
	+3 letters: hulloaing, punchball, turnhalls, unhallows.
	+4 letters: laughingly, punchballs, thankfully, unhallowed.
	+5 letters: changefully, clubhauling, hallucinate, keelhauling, thankfuller, unhallowing, unhealthful, unhealthily, unscholarly.
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