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eyah

eyah is the archaic form 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.

Forms of eyah

pluraleyahs

Questions about eyah

What is eyah the archaic form of?
Eyah is the archaic form of ayah.

Words near eyah in the dictionary

  1. exy
  2. exzodiacal
  3. exæresis
  4. ey
  5. ey up
  6. eyah
  7. eyahs
  8. Eyak
  9. Eyaks
  10. eyalet
  11. eyalets

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