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ayahs

ayahs is the plural 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.

Questions about ayahs

What is ayahs the plural of?
Ayahs is the plural of ayah.

Words near ayahs in the dictionary

  1. ayacut
  2. ayacuts
  3. Ayad
  4. Ayads
  5. ayah
  6. ayahs
  7. ayahuasca
  8. ayahuascas
  9. Ayajuthem
  10. Ayaka
  11. Ayakawa

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