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4 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children
originFrom various Indian languages (e.g. Hindi आया (āyā, “dry nurse, nanny”)), from Portuguese aia (“nurse, governess”), from Latin avia (“grandmother”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0