yab

Translingual

Symbol

yab

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Yuhup.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yuhup terms

English

Etymology

From yap.

Verb

yab (third-person singular simple present yabs, present participle yabbing, simple past and past participle yabbed)

1. (Nigeria, ambitransitive) To satirize or roast; to abuse verbally.
   • 1974, Afriscope, volume 4, numbers 1-6, page 42:

     But in between the bouts of light-hearted yabbing Fela began to insert serious political challenges. He attacked prevalent attitudes towards self determination which he abhorred. He stated that black people were being robbed.

Related terms

• yabbi

Anagrams

• aby, bya, Aby, yBa, bay, Bay, ABY, YBA

Afar

Etymology

From yaabé (“to talk, speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjab/ [ˈjʌb]
• Hyphenation: yab

Noun

yáb m (plural yaaboobá f)

1. conversation
2. insult
3. news, information
4. (sociolinguistics) dialect

Declension

Declension of yáb
absolutive	yáb
predicative	yáaba
subjective	yáb
genitive	yabtí
Postpositioned forms l-case yáabal k-case yáabak t-case yáabat h-case yáabah

Verb

yáb

1. imperative singular of yaabé

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “yab”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-rap¹, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-r(j)əp (“to stand”). Cognates include Burmese ရပ် (rap).

Pronunciation

• (Waingmaw) IPA^(key): [jæp̚˧˧]
• (Mongko) IPA^(key): [jaːp̚˧˩]
• Hyphenation: yab

Verb

yab

1. (intransitive) to stand
   • 2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 41:1 [Genesis 41:1]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible]‎^[2], page 66:

     Eig zain myangˮ thang꞉ Egutu khokham yhoeb moꓹ myang zigi nyang꞉ gi Nila gyid lang yam moo yhe꞉ yab nyid.

     Two years later the king of Egypt saw a dream that he was standing beside the river Nile.

References

• Qingxia Dai; Jie Li (2007), 勒期语研究 [The study of the Leqi language], Beijing: Central Institute for Nationalities Publishing House, →ISBN, page 326
• Mark Wannemacher (2011), A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎^[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 26
• Hkaw Luk (2017), A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 21