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xalla.

Headword: 
xalla.
Principal English Translation: 

sandy place, beach (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xāllah, xalla
IPAspelling: 
ʃɑːllɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

xalla. arenal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 158v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XĀLLAH sandy place, beach / arenal (M) [(2)Zp.13,227]. See XĀL-LI, -TLAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 321.