different between aya vs aza

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

Noun

aza (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, attributive) A nitrogen atom substituted for a carbon atom within a ring.
   • 2003, Heinrich Zollinger, Color Chemistry [1], ?ISBN, page 73:

     "However, aza N-atoms (~N=) have to be counted, if they replace methine groups in the chain."

Derived terms

• aziridine

Anagrams

• zaa

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese asa (“wing, handle”), from Vulgar Latin asa, from Latin ansa (“handle”). Compare the doublet asa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?a/

Noun

aza f (plural azas)

1. (proscribed) Synonym of á (“wing”)
   • 1955, Celso Emilio Ferreiro, O soño sulagado, Akal editor, page 40:

     e nós, os homes, nunca tivemos azas.

     and we men never had wings.

Related terms

• asa

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese asa. Cognate with Kabuverdianu aza.

Noun

aza

1. wing

Japanese

Romanization

aza

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese asa.

Noun

aza

1. wing

Portuguese

Noun

aza f (plural azas)

1. Obsolete spelling of asa

Zazaki

Etymology

From Arabic ????.

Noun

aza c

1. member