different between aya vs ayu

English

Etymology 1

Noun

aya (plural ayas)

1. Alternative form of ayah

Etymology 2

Adverb

aya (not comparable)

1. (archaic, dialect, New England) Yes; yea; aye.
   • 1938, Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts, Coward-McCann and Samuel French (1965), ?ISBN:

     “The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”

   • 2001, David McCullough, John Adams, Simon & Schuster (2001), ?ISBN:

     “And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”

Anagrams

• yaa

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Common Turkic *?ja.

Noun

aya (definite accusative ayan?, plural ayalar)

1. palm of the hand

   Synonyms: ovuc, k?f?

Declension

Further reading

• “aya” in Obastan.com.

Biak

Pronoun

aya

1. first person singular pronoun, I

Chickasaw

Verb

aya (active/stative, in/transitive, irregular short verb)

1. (intransitive) to go
2. (transitive) to go (somewhere)
3. (intransistive) to go to the bathroom, defecate
4. (intransitive) to walk (in baseball)

Usage notes

• Replaced by iyya with Class I subject prefixes (aya used with Class I subject suffix -li).
• Replaced by ayya with Class III or N prefixes.

Inflection

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Adverb

aya

1. not yet

Ewe

Noun

aya

1. wind

Japanese

Romanization

aya

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Jumaytepeque

Noun

aya

1. woman, female

References

• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

Kurudu

Pronoun

aya

1. first person singular pronoun, I

Malay

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /aj?/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /aj?/
• Rhymes: -aj?, -j?, -?
• Rhymes: -?

Noun

aya (Jawi spelling ????, plural aya-aya, informal 1st possessive ayaku, impolite 2nd possessive ayamu, 3rd possessive ayanya)

1. father (male parent)

Synonyms

• ayah (ayahanda, yah)
• abah (aba, bah)
• bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba, papa)
• rama

Further reading

• “aya” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Maybrat

Noun

aya

1. water

References

• A Grammar of Maybrat: A Language of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia (2007)

Nanai

Adjective

aya (transliteration needed)

1. good

References

• J.A. de la Fuente, Venjukov’s 1862/1868 Nanai Materials, 2011.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish allá and Portuguese alá.

Adverb

aya

1. there

Quechua

Noun

aya

1. soul, spirit, ghost
2. corpse, deceased, dead person

Declension

Synonyms

• nuna

Derived terms

• ayapampa
• ayawaska
• Ayamarq'ay killa

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

aya f (plural ayas)

1. female equivalent of ayo

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ????, from Proto-Turkic *h?ya, *?ja (“palm (of hand)”). Cognate with Old Turkic [Term?].

Noun

aya (definite accusative ayay?, plural ayalar)

1. palm (of hand)

Declension

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “aya”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Etymology 2

Noun

aya

1. dative singular of ay

Yale

Noun

aya

1. father

Yoruba

Noun

aya

1. wife

   Synonym: abilek?

   Antonym: ?k?

References

Yupiltepeque

Etymology

Cognate to Jumaytepeque aya, Jutiapa aiya, Chiquimulilla a?y?j, Sinacantán ayala.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aja/

Noun

aya

1. woman

See also

• jumu (“man”)

References

• Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

Zazaki

Pronoun

aya

1. she

English

Etymology

From Japanese ? (ayu, “sweetfish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ju?/

Noun

ayu (usually uncountable, plural ayus)

1. A sweetfish, an amphidromous fish of East Asia, the only member of its genus and family, Plecoglossus altivelis, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh. It is a game fish and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.

Synonyms

• ai

Translations

Anagrams

• Yau

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin allium.

Noun

ayu m (plural ayos)

1. garlic (plant)

Gorontalo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ju/
• Hyphenation: a?yu
• Rhymes: -ju, -u

Noun

ayu

1. tree
2. wood, timber

Japanese

Romanization

ayu

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Alternative forms

• hayu

Adjective

ayu (krama-ngoko ayu)

1. beautiful, pretty

Noun

ayu (krama-ngoko ayu)

1. beauty

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ayu m (plural ayos)

1. garlic

References

• AEDLL

Malay

Alternative forms

• Ayu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aju/
• Rhymes: -aju, -ju, -u

Adjective

ayu (Jawi spelling ????, plural ayu-ayu)

1. dainty (Delicately small and pretty)

Further reading

• “ayu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Taroko

Etymology

From Seediq yayu (“knife”)

Noun

ayu

1. a burn (landform)