ఆయా

Telugu

Etymology

From Portuguese aia (“dry nurse”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

ఆయా • (āyā) f (plural ఆయాలు)

1. a waiting woman, a maidservant, an ayah.

Pronoun

ఆయా • (āyā)

1. those, respective, their respective.

References

• Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003) “Loanwords from western languages: Portuguese and English”, in The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 478
• "ఆయా" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 119