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aia

aia is the alternative spelling of ayah.

Meaning of ayah

Noun (1)

ayah (plural ayahs)

  1. A South Asian female servant, maid or nanny, historically, often one working for Europeans in South Asia.
    • She manufactured the Station scandal, and talked to her ayah.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Watches of the Night”, in Plain Tales from the Hills (fiction)

Noun (2)

ayah (plural ayahs or ayat)

  1. A verse in the Quran.

Noun capitalized: AIA

AIA (plural AIAs)

  1. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Associate of the Institute of Actuaries (professional qualification).

Forms of aia

pluralaias
pluralAIAs

Questions about aia

What is aia the alternative spelling of?
Aia is the alternative spelling of ayah.
What part of speech is aia?
Aia is a noun.
What is the plural of aia?
The plural of aia is aias.

Words near aia in the dictionary

  1. AI-native
  2. AI-washing
  3. AI2
  4. AI2s
  5. ai;dr
  6. aia
  7. AIADMK
  8. Aiaia
  9. aias
  10. AIB
  11. aibika

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aia (page history and authors); AIA (page history and authors); ayah (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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