ayah n : an Indian nursemaid who looks after children

English

Etymology

From various Indian languages, after aia, feminine of aio.

Pronunciation

/aɪə/

Noun

1. A native female servant or maid, especially working for Europeans in South Asia.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 59:

     She manufactured the Station scandal, and—talked to her ayah.

Indonesian

Noun

1. father (male parent)

See also

• bung

Malay

Noun

1. father (male parent)

Ayah ( , plural Ayat ) is the Arabic word for sign or miracle. The word usually refers to each one of the 6236 verseshttp://www.askimam.org/fatwa/fatwaList.php?fid=31 found in the Qur'an (6348 ayat counting the basmalas). Muslims regard each ayah of the Qur'an as a sign from Allah.

The verse number in a symbol is written at the end of each verse. This symbol is ۝, end of Ayah. Its Unicode number is U+06DD and ۝۝۝۝ also denotes the end of a sura.

There are two types of Ayah, 1- Ayah having order in it is("Mohkumaat") and 2-("mutashabihaat") meaning resembling ayats.http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/3/7. The word mutashabeh means similar.http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/6/99.

References

External links

1. Free "Ayah of Day" RSS feeds
2. [Hilali/Khan translated as "Resembling".
3. Mutashabeh word mean similar