amah
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of amah
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (India)A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
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noun
- (India)A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
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(Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore)A female domestic helper; a maid.
“Then one day he disappeared and when Luke called apprehensively at his apartment the old amah told him that ‘Whisky Papa runrun London fastee.’”
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Etymology
From Portuguese ama (“female nurse”), from Medieval Latin amma (“wet nurse, amma”), perhaps an alteration of Latin mamma, of imitative origin, or from Ancient Greek.
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