different between amae vs amah

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ???

Noun

amae (uncountable)

1. Childlike behaviour aimed at inducing another (such as a parent, spouse, teacher or boss) to take care of one.

Japanese

Romanization

amae

1. R?maji transcription of ???

English

Alternative forms

• ama

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /???.m?/
• (Singapore English) IPA^(key): /???.m?/

Noun

amah (plural amahs)

1. In South Asia, a woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
2. In China and Southeast Asia, a female domestic helper.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 20:

     Then one day he disappeared and when Luke called apprehensively at his apartment the old amah told him that ‘Whisky Papa runrun London fastee.’

See also

• amma

Anagrams

• AHAM, Hama, MAHA, maha, mah?

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?h/

Pronoun

amáh

1. this, that (masculine; proximal to the spoken to)

See also

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amah/

Noun

amah (first-person possessive amahku, second-person possessive amahmu, third-person possessive amahnya)

1. female domestic helper.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ???????? (??mma, “common people, public”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amah/

Noun

amah (first-person possessive amahku, second-person possessive amahmu, third-person possessive amahnya)

1. common people