amah

plural amahs · alternative ama

1. IndiaA woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
2. BruneiIndonesiaMalaysiaSingaporeA female domestic helper; a maid.

   Then one day he disappeared and when Luke called apprehensively at his apartment the old amah told him that ‘Whisky Papa runrun London fastee.’

   1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 20