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amah

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a⋅mah

  [ah-muh, am-uh]
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–noun (in India and the Far East)
1. a baby's nurse, esp. a wet nurse.
2. a female servant; maid.
Origin:
1830–40; < Pg ama nurse, governess < ML amma wet nurse, perh. alter. of L mamma breast
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a·mah also a·ma   (ä'mə, ä'mä)   
n.  A housemaid, especially a wet nurse, in India and the Far East.

[Portuguese ama, nurse, from Medieval Latin amma, mother.]
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