Amah

Definitions: Amah

Amah

Noun

1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.

2. A female domestic.

Synonyms within Context: Amah

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Servant	Maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette; amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah; nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid; femme de chambre, femme fille; camarista; chef de cuisine,cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella; potwalloper; maid of all work, servant of all work; laundress, bedmaker; journeyman, charwoman; (worker); bearer, chokra, gyp, hamal, scout.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Amah

Domain	Title
Books	Amadi na Malam Amah (reference) The Amah (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Amah

"Amah" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amah" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amah

Modern Translations: Amah

Language		Translations for "amah"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		бавачка (dry nurse, nanny, nurse, nursemaid, nurserymaid), дойка (foster mother, fosterer, nurse, wet nurse). (various references)

German		Kinderfrau (mammy, nanny, nurse, nursery nurse). (various references)

Hungarian		pesztra (nursemaid), dajka (fostress, nanny, nurse), dada (nanny, nursemaid), bennszülött dajka. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		阿媽 (maid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あま (bitch, fisherman, flax, hemp, linen, maid, nun, woman shell diver). (various references)

Pig Latin		amahay

Russian		няня (baby sitter, baby tender, dry nurse, nanny, nurse, nursemaid, nurserymaid). (various references)

Vietnamese		bõ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Amah

Derivations
	Words beginning with "amah": amahs. (additional references)
	Words containing "amah": tacamahac, tacamahacs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Amah" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaaaah, aaaagh, aaahh, aah, Aaha, aahah, aahe, aahh, aam, abah, abmaphd, Agah, agma, ahah, Ahaha, aham, Ahma, Ajmal, alah, almah, almeh, ama, amad, amae, amahl, amaj, amak, amal, amam, aman, amap, amar, amash, amath, amax, amay, amaz, Amdh, amh, Amhadu, amith, amph, Amphu, amuch, anaf, Anagh, anam, Annagh, annah, arah, Armah, asah, asma, Asmah, Asmath, Avma, azmat, Gampaha, haham, imah, inah, maham, mahh, Mamah, Naamah, Namath, Namzha, omrah, ra-mah, Samadhi, Samah, Uamah, Uamha. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Amah

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-h-m"
	-1 letter: aah, aha, ama, ham.
	-2 letters: aa, ah, am, ha, hm, ma.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-h-m"
	+1 letter: almah, amahs, halma, hamal, hamza.
	+2 letters: ahimsa, almahs, ashman, ashram, asthma, brahma, chacma, dharma, graham, haemal, halmas, hamada, hamals, hamate, hamaul, hammal, hamzah, hamzas, maltha, matsah, matzah, mayhap, shaman, shamas, shazam.
	+3 letters: ahimsas, amphora, ashamed, ashrams, asthmas, bathmat, brahmas, chacmas, chamade, champac, champak, chapman, chasmal, chiasma, dharmas, drachma, grahams, hackman, hadarim, hamadas, hamates, hamauls, hammada, hammals, hamular, hamzahs, hangman, hanuman, hazanim, headman, hematal, himatia, macchia, mahatma, mahonia, mahuang, malthas, marshal, matsahs, matzahs, quamash, sambhar, shamans, shammas, tamasha, thalami, yashmac, yashmak.
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