ఆయా
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Telugu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Portuguese aia (“dry nurse”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
- a waiting woman, a maidservant, an ayah.
Pronoun[edit]
ఆయా • (āyā)
- those, respective, their respective.
References[edit]
- 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