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Ayah

//ˈaɪ.ə// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    A verse in the Quran.
  3. 3
    (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From various Indian languages (e.g. Hindi आया (āyā, “dry nurse, nanny”)), from Portuguese aia (“nurse, governess”), from Latin avia (“grandmother”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic آيَة (ʔāya, “sign, token”).

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