nanny vs amah

nanny and amah both are nouns.

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

As nouns, amah is a hyponym of nanny; that is, amah is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than nanny:

Other hyponyms of nanny include dry nurse, mammy, wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse.

nanny (noun)	amah (noun)
female goat	a female domestic
a woman who is the custodian of children	a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else