different between amay vs amah

English

Etymology

From Middle English amayen, from Old French amaier, esmaier (“to dismay”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?

Verb

amay (third-person singular simple present amays, present participle amaying, simple past and past participle amayed)

1. (transitive and intransitive, obsolete) To dismay; confound; be dismayed.

Anagrams

• Amya, Ayam, Maya, Yama, maya

Bikol Central

Adjective

amay (ámay)

1. early, a time in advance of the usual.

Hiligaynon

Noun

amáy

1. father

Kagayanen

Noun

amay

1. father

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