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ai yah

ai yah is the alternative form of aiya.

Meaning of aiya

Interjection

  1. (Australian, China, Chinese, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Taiwan) ah; oh; exclamation of surprise, blame, dismay, shock, or fear.
    • “I don’t need to hear any idle gossip.”
      “Aiyah, it’s not idle gossip! These are important details I’ve learned just from being around them, and from what Mr. Wong found out—”2015, Kevin Kwan, chapter 3, in China Rich Girlfriend, Doubleday, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    haiya

Questions about ai yah

What is ai yah the alternative form of?
Ai yah is the alternative form of aiya.

Words near ai yah in the dictionary

  1. AI washing
  2. AI whisperer
  3. AI whisperers
  4. AI winter
  5. AI winters
  6. ai yah
  7. AI'd
  8. AI-complete
  9. AI-first
  10. AI-native
  11. AI-washing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ai yah (page history and authors); aiya (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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