Aya vs Ayah - What's the difference?
aya | ayah |
(archaic, dialect, New England) yes; yea; aye.
* 1938 , Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts , Coward-McCann and Samuel French (1965), ISBN 0743223136:
*:“The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”
* 2001 , David McCullough, John Adams , Simon & Schuster (2001), ISBN 0573613494:
*:“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.”
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A verse in the Quran.
A native female servant or maid, especially working for Europeans in South Asia.
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, p. 59:
Ayah is a synonym of aya.
Ayah is a derived term of aya.
As nouns the difference between aya and ayah
is that aya is alternative form of lang=en while ayah is a verse in the Quran.As an adverb aya
is yes; yea; aye.As a proper noun Aya
is in Akkadian mythology, a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash.aya
English
Adverb
(-)ayah
English
Noun
(en noun)- She manufactured the Station scandal, and—talked to her ayah .
