yaro

See also: yarō

Hausa

Etymology

Compare Somali yar (“small”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jáː.ɽòː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [jáː.ɽòː]

Noun

yārṑ m (feminine yārinyā̀, plural yârā, possessed form yāròn)

1. boy, child
2. A follower of a chief or similar person.
3. servant, retainer

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto jaro, English year, German Jahr, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *jērą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaro/

Noun

yaro (plural yari)

1. year

Derived terms

• centyaro (“centenary”)
• yara (“annual”, adjective)
• yarcento (“century”)
• yardeko (“decade”)
• yare (“yearly”, adverb)
• yarmilo (“millennium”)

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝaɾo/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.ɾo]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝaɾo/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃaɾo/ [ˈʃa.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒaɾo/ [ˈʒa.ɾo]

• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: ya‧ro

Noun

yaro m (plural yaros)

1. Alternative form of aro (arum lily)

Further reading

• “yaro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Yanomam

Etymology

Cognate to Yanomamö yaro.

Noun

yaro (unclassified holonym; singulative yaro a, dual yaro kipë, plural yaro pë)

1. wild animal, game

References

• Perri Ferreira, Helder (2017) Yanomama Clause Structure‎^[1], volume 1, Utrecht: LOT, →ISBN, page 115
• Emiri, Loretta (1987) Dicionário yãnomamè-português (dialeto wakathautheri)‎^[2], Boa Vista: Comissão Pró-Índio de Roraima, page 85

Yanomamö

Etymology

Cognate to Yanomam yaro.

Noun

yaro

1. wild animal, game
2. meat
3. dangerous wild beast, beast that has killed
4. enemy warrior

References

• Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎^[3] (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN