yamyam
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Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From yamar.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: yam‧yam
Noun[edit]
yamyam
- an incantation
Verb[edit]
yamyam
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:yamyam.
Anagrams[edit]
Masbatenyo[edit]
Noun[edit]
yamyam
Derived terms[edit]
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish یامیام (yâmyâm) meaning also “Niam-Niam”, an obsolete name used by 18th- and 19th-century French and British travellers for the Azande, an ethnic group of North Central Africa. The name is said to mean “great eaters” in the Dinka language, supposedly referring to cannibalistic propensities formerly ascribed to the Azande.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
yamyam (definite accusative yamyamı, plural yamyamlar)
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- yamyamlık (“cannibalism”)
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yamyam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5189