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ayah

[ah-yuh] / ˈɑ yə /


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Upstairs, Amer finds her sitting in the dark, the ayah fanning her with a folded newspaper.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

She grabs a cup from the table and shakes it at the ayah.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

The ayah wheels her to the doors that open onto the balcony and over the threshold.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

She fishes a dirty hundred-rupee note out of a pocket of her handbag and gives it triumphantly to the ayah.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

She said she had applied for a UN job and they would all live in The Hague with a Dutch ayah to look after them.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy