handmaid vs amah

handmaid and amah both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
handmaid	Yes	No	No	No
amah	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, amah is a hypernym of handmaid; that is, amah is a word with a broader meaning than handmaid:

Other hypernyms of handmaid include housemaid, maid, maidservant.

handmaid (noun)	amah (noun)
a personal maid or female attendant	a female domestic
in a subordinate position	a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else