See amah on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 20:",
"text": "Then one day he disappeared and when Luke called apprehensively at his apartment the old amah told him that ‘Whisky Papa runrun London fastee.’",
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{
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{
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{
"ipa": "[ʔʌˈmʌh]"
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"args": {
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"2": "noun"
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},
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"plural"
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{
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"1": "zom",
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},
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{
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{
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}
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"power, force"
],
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[
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[
"force",
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"canonical"
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},
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"form": "no-table-tags",
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"tags": [
"table-tags"
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{
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"absolutive"
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{
"form": "amáha",
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"predicative"
]
},
{
"form": "amáh",
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"subjective"
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},
{
"form": "amáh",
"source": "declension",
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"genitive"
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},
{
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"table-tags"
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{
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"l-case",
"with-postposition"
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},
{
"form": "amáhak",
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"k-case",
"with-postposition"
]
},
{
"form": "amáhat",
"source": "declension",
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"t-case",
"with-postposition"
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{
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"h-case",
"with-postposition"
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{
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},
{
"word": "amáh"
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{
"word": "tamáh"
},
{
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{
"word": "tóh"
},
{
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"Afar lemmas",
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"this, that (masculine; proximal to the spoken to)"
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"Indonesia",
"Malaysia",
"Singapore"
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"Singapore-English"
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}
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"most"
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"extra": "paternal blood aunt",
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},
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}
],
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{
"form": "امه",
"tags": [
"Jawi"
]
},
{
"form": "amah-amah",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "amahku",
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"first-person",
"informal",
"possessive"
]
},
{
"form": "amahmu",
"tags": [
"possessive",
"second-person"
]
},
{
"form": "amahnya",
"tags": [
"possessive",
"third-person"
]
}
],
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"j": "امه"
},
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"Pages with entries",
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"Rhymes:Malay/mah"
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"maidservant, nursemaid, housemaid"
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"maidservant"
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[
"nursemaid",
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"housemaid",
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{
"ipa": "/amah/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-mah"
},
{
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}
],
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}
{
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{
"alt": "a-r-š-a-m /R̥šāmaʰ/",
"word": "𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠𐎶"
}
],
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"2": "ira-pro",
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"args": {
"1": "peo",
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"3": "*HámHas"
},
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],
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"Pages with entries"
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"power, force"
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[
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"reconstruction"
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}
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