ayah

• IPA^(key): /aɪə/

From various Indian languages (e.g. Hindi आया (āyā, “dry nurse, nanny”)), from Portuguese aia (“nurse, governess”), feminine of aio (“tutor”), possibly from Latin avia (“grandmother”).

ayah (plural ayahs)

1. A native female servant or maid, especially 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.

• amah

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

ayah (plural ayahs or ayat)

1. A verse in the Quran.

• ayat

• Haya, haya

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

From Malay ayah (“father”), from Pali ayya (“gentleman, honourable”), from Sanskrit आर्य (ārya), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *áryas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áryas.

• IPA^(key): /a.jah/
• Hyphenation: a‧yah

ayah (plural ayah-ayah, first-person possessive ayahku, second-person possessive ayahmu, third-person possessive ayahnya)

1. (formal) father (male parent)

• bapak

• bung

• “ayah” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /a.jah/
• Rhymes: -ajah, -jah, -ah

From Pali ayya (“gentleman, honourable”), from Sanskrit आर्य (ārya), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *áryas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áryas.

ayah (Jawi spelling ايه‎, plural ayah-ayah, informal first-person possessive ayahku, informal second-person possessive ayahmu, third-person possessive ayahnya)

1. (formal, polite) father (male parent)

   ayah angkat ― foster father

   ayah tiri ― stepfather

• bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba, papa)
• abah (aba, bah)
• rama

Borrowed from Hindi आया (āyā), from Portuguese aia.

ayah (Jawi spelling ايه‎, plural ayah-ayah, informal first-person possessive ayahku, informal second-person possessive ayahmu, third-person possessive ayahnya)

1. (dated) nursemaid, usually one of Indian ancestry

• amah

• pengasuh (“caretaker”)
• pembantu rumah (“domestic worker”)

• "ayah" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• "ayah" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (Malay Literary Reference Centre).