ayah
English
Etymology 1
From various Indian languages (e.g. Hindi आया (āyā, “dry nurse, nanny”)), from Portuguese aia (“nurse, governess”), from Latin avia (“grandmother”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ayah (plural ayahs)
- A South Asian female servant, maid or nanny, historically, often one working for Europeans in South Asia.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Watches of the Night”, in Plain Tales from the Hills (fiction):
- She manufactured the Station scandal, and talked to her ayah.
- 1989, Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel[3], New York: Arcade Publishing, published 2011, Book 4:
- […] a cot of iron had to be manufactured for [Bhim] after he had demolished two wooden cribs with a lusty kick of his foot; and a succession of bruised ayahs had finally to be replaced by a male attendant, a former Hastinapur all-in wrestling champion.
See also
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic آيَة (ʔāya, “sign, token”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Alternative forms
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Further reading
Ayah in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Āyah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
ayah (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay ayah (“father”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aya₂ (“father’s sister, father’s sister’s husband”), from Proto-Austronesian *aya₂.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
ayah (first-person possessive ayahku, second-person possessive ayahmu, third-person possessive ayahnya)
- (formal) father (male parent)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ayah
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ Robert Blust, David F. Aberle, N. J. Allen, R. H. Barnes, Ann Chowning (1980 April 1) “Early Austronesian Social Organization: The Evidence of Language [and Comments and Reply]”, in Current Anthropology[1], volume 21, number 2, , →ISSN, pages 205–247
- ^ Robert Blust (1993) “Austronesian sibling terms and culture history”, in Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia[2], volume 149, number 1, , →ISSN, pages 22–76
Further reading
- “ayah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aya₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Malay
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aya (“father’s sister, father’s sister’s husband”), from Proto-Austronesian *aya.
Noun
ayah (Jawi spelling ايه, plural ayah-ayah, informal 1st possessive ayahku, 2nd possessive ayahmu, 3rd possessive ayahnya)
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Hindi आया (āyā), from Portuguese aia.
Noun
ayah (Jawi spelling ايه, plural ayah-ayah, informal 1st possessive ayahku, 2nd possessive ayahmu, 3rd possessive ayahnya)
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- "ayah" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
- “ayah” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*aya₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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