lalla

noun4

1. •
   (historical) In Persia, a kind of domestic tutor.
2. •
   (historical) In Persia, a male nurse.
3. •
   (India, historical) A native clerk who writes the vernacular.
4. •
   (India, historical) A respectable merchant.

   • Where there are no tigers, the Lalla (scribe) becomes a shikaree. — 1841