handmaiden vs amah

handmaiden and amah both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of handmaiden include housemaid, maid, maidservant.

handmaiden (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