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amah

/ˈɑː.mə/ US, UK
/ˈɑː.mɑ/ Singapore English

Rhymes with -ɑːmə

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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.

noun amahs · ama

India A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore A female domestic helper; a maid. Then one day he disappeared and when Luke called apprehensively at his apartment the old amah told him that ‘Whisky Papa runrun London fastee.’

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@misc{amah_2026,
  title = {amah},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/amah},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}