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Aya vs Yaa - What's the difference?

aya | yaa |

As an adverb aya

is there, over there.

As a noun yaa is

the letter in the arabic script.

aya

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • (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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    yaa

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The letter in the Arabic script.
  • Usage notes

    * Some Arabic-based languages use variations of the letter, e.g. Persian uses (ye). ----