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From Sanskrit वलाहक (valāhaka). Cognate to Sinhalese වලා (walā).
ވިލާ • (vilā) (plural ވިލާތައް (vilātak̊))
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- brume
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “ވިލާ”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 257