Please can you help? looking for the Origin of the Nigerian word 'WAHALA'
Some say Its a Nigerian pidgin Language, Some say its an Hausa word, some Ibo and others say yoruba.
Can someone help clear the confusion.

@ poster

WAHALA is a typical Yoruba word and it means "TROUBLE"

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wahala is a typical yoruba language

It's my favourite word - I love how it sounds as it rolls off the tongue 

It's a known fact that the word 'Wahala' came from Hausa as can be found in the Hausa dictionary-kamus. It means suffering, torture, pain, harshness, difficulty
It was the Hausas through trade and commerce with other major tribes in the country that spread the word and made it become part of the everyday pidgin.

bashantale:
It's a known fact that the word 'Wahala' came from Hausa as can be found in the Hausa dictionary-kamus. It means suffering, torture, pain, harshness, difficulty
It was the Hausas through trade and commerce with other major tribes in the country that spread the word and made it become part of the everyday pidgin.

The word is purely Yoruba but can also be traced to Arabic.

it's from Yoruba language

It's an Hausa word for trouble or difficulty.

wahala for who no sabi where wahala originated from oo

Wahala is from Hausa language.

Tare1:
wahala is a typical yoruba language

The word is actually Hausa word borrowed by Yorubas and now by everybody in Nigeria. Hausa could have actually borrowed it from Arabic: so it is a case of "borrower borrowing borrow!"
It is in the class of many words borrowed by Yoruba from Hausa who borrowed from Arabs, another example in "alubosa" which is Arabic word "al basa", Hausa also borrowed that from the Arabs.
The only problem now is that we do not know when all these borrowed words will be returned to the owner