[Anglo-Indian a. Pg. ama nurse.] A name given in the south of India, and elsewhere in the East, to a wet-nurse.
1839. Lett. fr. Madras, 294. House-keeper-like bodies, who talk only of ayahs and amahs.
1857. Tomes, Americ. in Japan, viii. 179. Either maid-servants or women of Macao called Amahs or Ayahs were employed.
