[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.644 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.644 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.644 - **Language:** English ### [c10.644](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.644) \*\*AYAH\*\*, s. A native lady's-maid or nurse-maid. The word has been adopted into most of the Indian vernaculars in the forms \*āya\* or \*āyā\*, but it is really Portuguese (f. \*aia\*, 'a nurse, or governess'; m. \*aio\*, 'the governor of a young noble'). \[These again have been connected with L. Latin \*aidus\*, Fr. \*aide\*, 'a helper.'\] - [Previous: c10.643](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.643) - [Next: c10.645](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.645) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.644](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.644) · Pramāṇa