yah

See also: Yah and þah

English

Etymology 1

An alternative pronunciation, akin to yeah.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jʌː/, /jɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ʌː, -ɑː

Adverb

yah (not comparable)

  1. (UK, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Yes.
    Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.
Translations
yes — see yes

Interjection

yah

  1. An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster.
Translations

Etymology 2

From the pronunciation of “yes” which such people use.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

yah (plural yahs)

  1. (British, informal) An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.
Translations
See also

Etymology 3

From you.

Pronoun

yah

  1. Pronunciation spelling of you.
    • 2006, Carmen Portnoy, The Money Pie: A Recipe for Women Investors, page 6:
      "Hey, Sis, do yah want a Hertz Donut?" one of them sweetly said as the other one held out a donut bag. She reached for it. Her step-sister snatched the bag away and socked her hard in the arm instead.

See also
terms containing the word "yah", some of which may be derived from the above terms, i.e. unsorted

Anagrams

Gullah

Etymology

Variant of yuh (“here”).

Adverb

yah

  1. here

Malay

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jah/
  • Rhymes: -jah, -ah

Noun

yah

  1. father (male parent)

Synonyms

Manx

Interjection

yah?

  1. Alternative form of yagh

Etymology

Compare Carrier yoh (“house”)

Postposition

yah

  1. inside, into an enclosed space, into an enclosure

Oneida

Particle

yah

  1. not

References

Karin Michelson, Norma Kennedy, Mercy Doxtator (2016) Glimpses of Oneida Life, University of Toronto, page 384

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognates include Navajo yas and Dogrib zah.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [jà(h)]
  • Hyphenation: yah

Noun

yah (stem -yah-)

  1. snow

Inflection
Possessive inflection of yah (-yahé)
singular plural
1st person seyahé naxeyahé
2nd person neyahé
3rd person 1) — giyahé
2) meyahé goyahé
4th person yeyahé
reflexive sp. ɂedeyahé kedeyahé
unsp. deyahé
reciprocal — ɂełeyahé
indefinite ɂeyahé
areal goyahé
1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular.
2) Used when the previous condition does not apply.

References
  • Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99

Zhuang

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

yah (Sawndip forms 𫰈 or 𫰎 or 下 or 𡟺 or 𭑧 or 𫰫 or 吓, 1957–1982 spelling yaƅ)

  1. wife
  2. mother-in-law (husband's mother)
  3. old woman; granny

Classifier

yah (1957–1982 spelling yaƅ)

  1. Classifier for elderly women.
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