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Aya

Aya

See also: aya, ayá, áya, āya, ayą́, aþa, and Ay'a

English

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Aya

  1. In Akkadian mythology, a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash.

Japanese

Romanization

Aya

  1. rōmaji reading of あや

Turkish

Proper noun

Aya

  1. A female given name

aya

aya

See also: Aya, ayá, áya, āya, ayą́, aþa, and Ay'a

English

Noun

aya ‎(plural ayas)

  1. Alternative form of ayah

Etymology 2

Adverb

aya ‎(not comparable)

  1. (archaic, dialect, New England) Yes; yea; aye.
    • 1938, Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts, Coward-McCann and Samuel French (1965), ISBN 0743223136:
      “The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”
    • 2001, David McCullough, John Adams, Simon & Schuster (2001), ISBN 0573613494:
      “And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”

Biak

Pronoun

aya

  1. first person singular pronoun, I

Chickasaw

Verb

aya

  1. to defecate

Ewe

Noun

aya

  1. wind

Japanese

Romanization

aya

  1. rōmaji reading of あや

Jumaytepeque

Noun

aya

  1. woman, female

References

  • Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

Kurudu

Pronoun

aya

  1. first person singular pronoun, I

Malay

Pronunciation

Noun

aya

  1. father (male parent)

Synonyms

Maybrat

Noun

aya

  1. water

References

  • A Grammar of Maybrat: A Language of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia (2007)

Spanish

Noun

aya f ‎(plural ayas)

  1. maid, housemaid

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Old Turkic aya, from Proto-Turkic *hāya, *āja ‎(“palm (of hand)”).

Noun

aya ‎(definite accusative ayayı, plural ayalar)

  1. palm (of hand)

Etymology 2

Noun

aya

  1. accusative singular of ay

Yupiltepeque

Etymology

Cognate to Jumaytepeque aya, Jutiapa aiya, Chiquimulilla aʔyāj, Sinacantán ayala.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aja/

Noun

aya

  1. woman

See also

  • jumu ‎(“man”)

References

  • Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
  • Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

Etymology

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