amah

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English

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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

Noun

amah (plural amahs)

  1. (India) A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
  2. (Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia) A female domestic helper; a maid.
    • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 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.’

See also

Anagrams

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈmah/
  • Hyphenation: a‧mah

Pronoun

amáh

  1. this, that (masculine; proximal to the spoken to)

Declension

Declension of amáh
absolutive amáh
predicative amáha
subjective amáh
genitive amáh
Postpositioned forms
l-case amáhal
k-case amáhak
t-case amáhat
h-case amáhah

See also

Afar demonstrative pronouns
masculine feminine
proximal to the speaker(s) áh táh
proximal to the spoken to amáh tamáh
distal wóh tóh
very distal wóttih

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Arabic أَمَة (ʔama).

Noun

amah

  1. A female domestic worker, a housemaid.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.mah/
  • Rhymes: -mah
  • Hyphenation: a‧mah

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hokkien 阿媽／阿妈.

Noun

amah

  1. a (Chinese) woman who works as a housemaid

Etymology 2

From Arabic عَامَّة (ʕāmma).

Noun

amah

  1. ordinary or most people

Etymology 3

From Malay amah, from Arabic أَمَة (ʔama).

Noun

amah

  1. housemaid (a female domestic worker)

Etymology 4

Noun

amah

  1. alternative form of amati (“paternal blood aunt”)

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic أَمَة (ʔama).

Pronunciation

Noun

amah (Jawi spelling امه, plural amah-amah, informal 1st possessive amahku, 2nd possessive amahmu, 3rd possessive amahnya)

  1. maidservant, nursemaid, housemaid

Descendants

  • Indonesian: amah

Further reading

Tedim Chin

Etymology

The first part (a-) from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔa. Cognates include Zou ema.

Pronoun

amah

  1. he, she

References

  • Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip
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