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===Etymology 1=== |
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From {{inh|id|ms|amah}}, from {{der|id|ar|أَمَة}}. |
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====Pronunciation==== |
====Pronunciation==== |
Revision as of 08:31, 3 May 2022
Brunei Malay
Noun
amah
- A female domestic worker, a housemaid.
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Portuguese ama (“female nurse”), from Medieval Latin amma (“wet nurse, amma”), perhaps an alteration of Latin mamma, of imitative origin, or from Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation
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Noun
amah (plural amahs)
- In South Asia, a woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
- In China and Southeast Asia, a female domestic helper.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, 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.’
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 20:
See also
Anagrams
Afar
Pronunciation
Pronoun
amáh
See also
Afar demonstrative pronouns
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Indonesian
Etymology 1
From Malay amah, from Arabic أَمَة (ʔama).
Pronunciation
Noun
amah (first-person possessive amahku, second-person possessive amahmu, third-person possessive amahnya)
- female domestic helper.
Etymology 2
From Arabic عَامَّة (ʕāmma, “common people, public”).
Pronunciation
Noun
amah (first-person possessive amahku, second-person possessive amahmu, third-person possessive amahnya)
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- English countable nouns
- Afar terms with IPA pronunciation
- Afar lemmas
- Afar pronouns
- Afar demonstrative pronouns
- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
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- Indonesian terms derived from Arabic
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