Definition of "aja" []

• A South-African Dutch form of the East Indian ayah, a nurse; a lady's-maid. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Emmer, locally known as aja, is used in various ways."
• ""Wondering through the World: Ibn Battuta, the Muslim World, and the 'aja'ib narrative""
• "Nor does it recommend itself to take the word ajâ (understood to mean 'she-goat') in a sense different from that in which we understand the term 'aja' which occurs twice in the same mantra."