Dai

Origin

From Hindi, from Sanskrit.

Full definition of dai

Noun

1. (chiefly North India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) A wet nurse; a midwife. from 18th c.
• 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 72:Kausalya, she learnt, was his dai, the one who had breast-fed and looked after him.----