different between aya vs rya

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 Swedish rya (“thick cloth”).

Noun

rya (plural ryas)

1. A Scandinavian knotted-pile woollen rug, used as bed-cover and tapestry.
   • 2008, Kirsti Salo-Mattila, Chapter 12: Transformations in the Art of Rya Making, Terttu Tuomi-Gröhn (editor), Reinventing Art of Everyday Making, Peter Lang, page 217,

     People were proud of art ryas designed by textile artists and woven by professionals, and they themselves wove copies of published traditional compositions, or executed new craft ryas that were designed for the purpose by textile artists.

Translations

Anagrams

• -ary, Ary, Ayr, Ray, ary, ayr, ra'y, ray, yar, ? ray, ?-ray

Japanese

Romanization

rya

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

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??a.

Verb

-ryá (infinitive kuryá, perfective -rîye)

1. to eat

Derived terms

• icyokurya (Rwanda) / icokurya (Rundi)