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amah

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Noun — A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.

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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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