英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈaɪ.ə/, /ˈɑːjə/

名詞

ayah (plural ayahs)

1. 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, 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.

参考

• amah

語源 2

Borrowed from Arabic آيَة (ʔāya, “sign, token”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈaɪ.(j)ɑː/, /ˈaɪ.ə/

名詞

ayah (plural ayahs or ayat)

1. (Islam) A verse in the Quran.

別の表記

• ayat

Further reading

• Ayah in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Āyah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ayah (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Haya, haya