Hyah vs Ayah - What's the difference?
hyah | ayah |
As an interjection hyah is a call, often to horses, livestock, or cattle, to move forward or proceed or hyah can be (martial arts) a vocalisation used when performing a technique or striking a blow. As a noun ayah is a verse in the quran.
hyah English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from a variant of
Alternative forms
* ya
Interjection
( en-interjection)
a call, often to horses, livestock, or cattle, to move forward or proceed
- Hyah''', mule! '''Hyah !
Etymology 2
Variation of kiai.
Alternative forms
* hi-yah
Interjection
( en-interjection)
(martial arts) a vocalisation used when performing a technique or striking a blow |
ayah English
Noun
( en noun)
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:
- She manufactured the Station scandal, and—talked to her ayah .
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