nounplural noun yayas
PhilippinesA woman employed by a family to look after a child or a sick or elderly person (often as a title or a familiar form of address)
‘I dropped my daughter off with her yaya’- ‘Yaya Mary has been with us for more than a year now’
Origin
Tagalog, from Spanish aya ‘nanny’.
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