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Borrowed from Hindustani दलाल (dalāl) / دَلال (dalāl).
దలాలీ • (dalālī) ? (plural దలాలీలు)
- broker; salesman
- swindler
- douceur
- Brown-1903, Gwynn-1991 (2022) “దలాలీ”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Telugu Dictionaries]