If you have a habit of saying “Aiyoh” every time you end up in a soup or get yourself hurt, you are not just uttering a spontaneous colloquial term anymore, but it’s a word from the English language.

If you are going all “Aiyah” reading this piece of information, there’s more coming your way, since the Oxford English Dictionary has included “Aiyoh” and “Aiyah” among 500 new words added to it. Both these expressions are so widely used that it is now in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Like many Indian words, “Aiyoh” and “Aiyah” are loaded and can mean many things depending on context and tone — irritation, disgust, surprise, dismay, pain, lament, disappointment, with “Aiyah” and “Aiyoh” being interchangeable.

The dictionary accurately associates “Aiyoh” with pain and dismay while “Aiyah” is introduced as a term that can denote derision of joy in different contexts. It also adds that the word used commonly in South India actually originated in China, as “Aiyoh” in Mandarin language and “Aiyah” comes from Cantonese.

In addition to these two words used in Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Singapore as well, the dictionary added “YOLO” (You Only Live Once) and “Moobs” (Man Boobs). Another important addition was the word “gender-fluid” — a person who is gender-fluid prefers to remain flexible about gender identity rather than committing to a single gender.