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How would you pronounce 'Aiya'?

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00100001 · 22/07/2017 21:24

I would pronounce it like Isla with out the 'L'
Eye-ur

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Shemozzle · 28/07/2017 23:54

How Scousers say hello. Hiya without the h.

Zhx3 · 28/07/2017 23:45

If you speak Chinese, it's an expression used in frustration/exasperation. I speak Cantonese and when I saw your thread title, I thought immediately of my mum scolding me Grin.

TheSeaTheSkyTheSeaTheSkyyyyyy · 28/07/2017 23:39

The i and y do seem needless together. It would make me try to pronounce it Ah-ee-ya.

Isadora2007 · 28/07/2017 22:51

It's awful. Sorry. It's what you may well be shouting as she is born...as in "ayai feck! That hurts!!!"

But as a name. Nah. Don't do that to the poor child. Stick with Anya or Ayla or something.

elQuintoConyo · 28/07/2017 22:48

I'd pronounce it like hiya but without the h.

I know a couple and i think it is pretty.

SleepForTheWeek · 28/07/2017 22:44

Where are people getting the rs from???

Oysterbabe · 28/07/2017 21:35

It sounds like my toddler saying hello.

Penhacked · 27/07/2017 10:41

Eye-ah is the sound Italians make to mean 'ow'. Bit weird. Aida (pronounced eye ee da) is nicer imo and a known but uncommon name

MrsWooster · 27/07/2017 10:26

Another vote for "aye ya bugger!", as when a van drove past me through a big puddle yesterday.
It's actually quite a pretty name tho!

itstoolateforthisbollox · 27/07/2017 10:23

I-ya.. That what the call her in Game of Thrones

thats Arya, totally different name

AndNowItIsSeven · 27/07/2017 10:21

Awful name , could maybe get away with it if not from a British culture.

TurquoiseDress · 27/07/2017 10:18

I would pronounce it as Eye-a as in the place Ayia Napa (resort in Cyprus)

BendydickCuminsnatch · 25/07/2017 10:33

I know an Anaiyah

BendydickCuminsnatch · 25/07/2017 10:32

Like 'hiya' without the H.

AdalindSchade · 25/07/2017 07:15

Aia? No!
It's not really much of a name is it? Just a collection of vowels, no substance. It's a very wispy, insubstantial sound. I really don't like it.

MrsWhirly · 25/07/2017 05:59

Love Aia!

I've always loved the name Aya anyway. X

Tattybogle89 · 24/07/2017 09:05

Moomin my first thought was the same.

Ah ya , that was sare

marmitecrumpets · 24/07/2017 08:01

I taught a little girl with this name as it was pronounced Ay-uh

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00100001 · 24/07/2017 07:51

'Aya' would have the problem of AY-UH (long a sound at beginning)

Aia?

I just like the way it sounds. (At the moment - might change my mind)

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00100001 · 24/07/2017 07:50

So how might you spell it to get the "correct" pronunciation?

Or is it just not going to 'work'?

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pinkmagic1 · 24/07/2017 05:07

Like Mrs Whirly said, it is a very popular Arab girls name, in fact it's my neices name.
Like a previous poster said it is pronounced like the Ayia in Ayia Napa.

DontBeBlueBeARainbow · 24/07/2017 04:48

I also read it in Chinese, as in aiyamaya = oh my goodness or aiya=ouch.

Very funny Grin But most people won't.

Shadow666 · 24/07/2017 04:35

Aiya is also used in Japan as a girls name. It's pronounced EYE-yah.

MrsWhirly · 24/07/2017 04:14

Aya is a very popular Arab girls name. Lot's in Lebanon and Syria. I think it's very pretty.

BlessYourCottonSocks · 24/07/2017 03:15

Ay-ah. Which means round here everyone would be shouting 'Ay-ah, Ay-ah' at her all the time. (Hiya, Aiya...)

Not a great sound.