ayah
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of ayah
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A South Asian female servant, maid or nanny, historically, often one working for Europeans in South Asia.
“She manufactured the Station scandal, and talked to her ayah.”
“[…] a cot of iron had to be manufactured for [Bhim] after he had demolished two wooden cribs with a lusty kick of his foot; and a succession of bruised ayahs had finally to be replaced by a male attendant, a former Hastinapur all-in wrestling champion.”
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noun
-
A South Asian female servant, maid or nanny, historically, often one working for Europeans in South Asia.
“She manufactured the Station scandal, and talked to her ayah.”
“[…] a cot of iron had to be manufactured for [Bhim] after he had demolished two wooden cribs with a lusty kick of his foot; and a succession of bruised ayahs had finally to be replaced by a male attendant, a former Hastinapur all-in wrestling champion.”
- A verse in the Quran.
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Etymology
From various Indian languages (e.g. Hindi आया (āyā, “dry nurse, nanny”)), from Portuguese aia (“nurse, governess”), from Latin avia (“grandmother”).
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