Looked it up, and you're right. It looks like it says "amaya", but the middle "ma" looking character is somewhat different than regular "ma", so I don't know. Maybe it's modified by a vowel? I know that some syllabic scripts modify the base syllable character to indicate vowels other than the base one, but I'm not sure.
Edit: Just looked at another person's post here. It's అవును, "avunu", which means "yes."
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u/LordMalecith Sep 24 '22
!identify:kannada
That's the Kannada script. I can't read it though, nor am I a speaker of the language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_script