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ayah

[ah-yuh] / ˈɑ yə /


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

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

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

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

He finds the ayah napping on the kitchen floor.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

Amer leaves the vegetables upstairs with the ayah and goes to Aunty Park for a walk.

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




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