‖ daye India.
(daɪ, ˈdɑːɪ)
Also dai, dhaye, dhye, dy, dyah.
[f. Hind. dāī, Pers. dāyah.]
In N. India and Persia, a nurse; a wet-nurse; a midwife.
| 1782 India Gaz. 12 Oct. (Y., Suppl.), Dy (Wet-nurse) 10 Rs. 1810 T. Williamson East India Vade-Mecum I. 341 The Dhye is more generally an attendant upon native ladies. 1825 M. M. Sherwood (title) History of little Lucy and her dhaye. 1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 154 The English child born in India has a nurse called a da'i. 1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun xxix. 326 The ‘dyah’, or wet-nurse, is looked on as a second mother. 1920 Outward Bound Oct. 82/1 The doctor and her least dangerous dai (nurse) clambered into the waiting barouche. 1927 Other Lands Apr. 89/2 The indigenous dais are..absolutely ignorant. |