aya

aya (plural ayas)

1. Alternative form of ayah

aya (not comparable)

1. (archaic, dialect, New England) Yes; yea; aye.
   • 1938, Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts, Coward-McCann and Samuel French, published 1965, →ISBN:

     “The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”

   • 2001, David McCullough, John Adams, Simon & Schuster, published 2001, →ISBN:

     “And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”

• yaa

From Common Turkic *āja.

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aya (definite accusative ayanı, plural ayalar)

1. (Chambarak) palm of the hand [1]

   Synonyms: ovuc, kəfə

• “aya” in Obastan.com.

aya

1. first person singular pronoun, I

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *aya.

• IPA^(key): /aˈja/

aya (active and stative)

1. (intransitive) to go (I)
2. (transitive) to go (somewhere) (I;3)
3. (intransitive) to go to the bathroom, defecate (I)
4. (intransitive) to walk (in baseball) (I)
5. (auxiliary, preceded by II or III subject prefix) to get

• Replaced by iyya with Class I subject prefixes (aya used with Class I subject suffix -li).
• Replaced by ayya with Class III or N prefixes.
• The auxiliary is more common in the negative than the affirmative.

• Mobilian: aya

aya

1. not yet

aya

1. wind

• IPA^(key): /ʔáː.jàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔáː.jàː]

From Arabic آيَة (ʔāya).

āyā̀ f (plural āyōyī, possessed form āyàr̃)

1. verse (usually of the Qur'an)
2. punctuation mark
3. pause

ayā f (possessed form ayar̃)

1. tiger nut (Cyperus esculentus) (a plant)
2. tiger nut (a fruit)

• IPA^(key): /ajaʔ/
• Hyphenation: a‧ya
• Rhymes: -ajaʔ

aya

1. uncle (parent's brother)

aya m (plural ayeemoo n)

1. village, land, country, neighborhood

• Mous, Maarten, Qorro, Martha, Kießling, Roland (2002) Iraqw-English Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien), volume 18, Köln, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 9

aya

1. Rōmaji transcription of あや

aya

1. woman, female

• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

aya

1. first person singular pronoun, I

aya

1. Latin spelling of აჲა (aya)

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ajə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ajə/
• Rhymes: -ajə, -jə, -ə

aya (Jawi spelling ايا, plural aya-aya, informal 1st possessive ayaku, 2nd possessive ayamu, 3rd possessive ayanya)

1. father (male parent)

• ayah (ayahanda, yah)
• abah (aba, bah)
• bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba, papa)
• rama

• “aya” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

aya

1. water

• A Grammar of Maybrat: A Language of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia (2007)

Cognate with Igala ọ́yà, Ifè aya, Yoruba aya, ọya, ọyà, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *ɔ-yà

• IPA^(key): /ā.jā/

aya

1. wife

   Antonym: ọkọ

• ayọ́lọ́zà (“queen”)

• írálé (“co-wife”)

From Spanish allá and Portuguese alá.

aya

1. there

aya

1. soul, spirit, ghost
2. corpse, deceased, dead person

• nuna

• ayapampa
• ayawaska
• Ayamarq'ay killa

Inherited from Latin avia (“grandmother”).

• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Syllabification: a‧ya
• Homophones: haya, (with yeísmo) halla

aya f (plural ayas)

1. female equivalent of ayo

Borrowed from Arabic آيَة (ʔāya).

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aya (n class, plural aya)

1. paragraph

   Synonym: paragrafu

2. verse

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔaja/ [ˈʔa.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: a‧ya

aya (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ)

1. pleasantness of the weather, face, etc.

   Synonyms: aliwalas, kaaliwalasan

Borrowed from Spanish aya (“governess”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔaja/ [ˈʔa.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: a‧ya

aya (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ)

1. governess; caretaker of children

   Synonyms: yaya, ama, sisiwa

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔajaʔ/ [ˈʔa.jɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -ajaʔ
• Syllabification: a‧ya

ayà (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜌ)

1. Alternative form of yaya

• ayain

Probably from Classical Malay ايق (ayak) (cf. ayak), the stem of مڠايق (mengayak, “to sieve”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ja]

aya

1. (transitive) to sift

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Ottoman Turkish آیا, from Proto-Turkic *hāya, *āja (“palm (of hand)”).

aya (definite accusative ayayı, plural ayalar)

1. palm (of hand)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

aya

1. dative singular of ay

aya

1. father

• ọyà

Cognate with Igala ọ́yà, Ifè aya, Olukumi aya, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ɔ́-yà

• IPA^(key): /ā.jā/, /ā.jà/

aya or ayà

1. wife[1]

   Synonyms: abilekọ, ìyàwó

   Antonym: ọkọ

• The form ayà is used by speakers of Central Yoruba dialects. Other speakers of Central Yoruba and Northeast Yoruba dialects use the form ọyà

• aláya (“married man”)
• ayaba (“queen, royal wife”)

• IPA^(key): /à.jà/

àyà

1. chest
2. (by extension) lungs, heart

   Synonyms: ọkàn, ẹ̀dọ̀

3. (idiomatic) bravery, courage

   Synonyms: akin, ògbójú

• IPA^(key): /à.já/

àyá

1. (literally) same time in the past year
2. (by extension) anniversary

   Synonyms: àyájọ́, ayẹyẹ

• àyájọ́ (“anniversary”)

Cognate to Jumaytepeque aya, Jutiapa aiya, Chiquimulilla aʔyāj, Sinacantán ayala.

• IPA^(key): /aja/

aya

1. woman

• jumu (“man”)

• Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

aya

1. she