amah
4 synonyms for amah, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A woman whose job is looking after children, or, in the past, one who breastfed another family's baby.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
From Portuguese ama (“female nurse”), from Medieval Latin amma (“wet nurse, amma”), perhaps an alteration of Latin mamma, of imitative origin, or from Ancient Greek.
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