Amah vs Ayah - What's the difference?
amah | ayah |
A woman employed to look after children in India; a wet nurse.
A maid in China and other parts of Asia.
*1977 , , , Folio Society 2010, p. 20:
*:Then one day he disappeared and when Luke called apprehensively at his apartment the old amah told him that ‘Whisky Papa runrun London fastee.’
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:
As nouns the difference between amah and ayah
is that amah is a woman employed to look after children in India; a wet nurse while ayah is a verse in the Quran.amah
English
(wikipedia amah)Noun
(en noun)Alternative forms
* amaSee also
* ammaAnagrams
*ayah
English
Noun
(en noun)- She manufactured the Station scandal, and—talked to her ayah .