"minah" meaning in English

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      "ipa": "/ˈmaɪnə/"
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: mat"
        },
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          "ref": "1987 August 26, Ning Juita, “Culture shock for Yati, the kampung girl”, in The Straits Times, page 16",
          "text": "Yati feels she is lucky to get - and hold - a factory job, though it has earned her the title of \"Minah Karan\".",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 15, Neil Humphreys, “From Cool Dude to Sad Old Man”, in The New Paper, page 34",
          "text": "Among the ah bengs and ah lians, the mats and the minahs, the young expats and the backpackers, he stood out like a dozen guys on a male-only dance floor singing Dancing Queen (I'll never forgive Blur for ruining my 21st birthday).",
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          "ref": "2015 October 4, Wong Kim Hoh, “At 17, she found herself with a broken home and nowhere to stay”, in The Straits Times, page B7",
          "text": "“People thought I was a minah and that I would not make it but I did,” she says, using the colloquial term to describe rowdy Malay girls without drive or ambition.",
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          "ref": "2017 December 19, Audrey Leong, “YouTube duo makes curtain call”, in The New Paper, page 15",
          "text": "Hirzi said of their significance: “People watched the Minahs for entertainment, but there was also a lot (more) to the videos... When we were vulnerable, the characters, especially the Minahs, picked us up.”",
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          "ref": "1987 August 26, Ning Juita, “Culture shock for Yati, the kampung girl”, in The Straits Times, page 16",
          "text": "Yati feels she is lucky to get - and hold - a factory job, though it has earned her the title of \"Minah Karan\".",
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          "text": "“People thought I was a minah and that I would not make it but I did,” she says, using the colloquial term to describe rowdy Malay girls without drive or ambition.",
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          "text": "Hirzi said of their significance: “People watched the Minahs for entertainment, but there was also a lot (more) to the videos... When we were vulnerable, the characters, especially the Minahs, picked us up.”",
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