amah
Plural: amahs
Noun
- A nurse or maidservant in East Asia.
- a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
- a female domestic
- A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
- A female domestic helper; a maid.
Examples
- She tended to her letter rack like an amah, keeping everything in order.
Origin / Etymology
From Portuguese ama (“female nurse”), from Medieval Latin amma (“wet nurse, amma”), perhaps an alteration of Latin mamma, of imitative origin, or from Ancient Greek.
Synonyms
housemaid, maid, maidservant, wet nurse, wet-nurse, wetnurse
Scrabble Score: 9
amah: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordamah: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
amah: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
amah: valid Words With Friends Word