yat

• jat

yat (plural yats)

1. A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use
2. The Late Proto-Slavic (Common Slavic) vowel that was represented by this letter, usually transcribed as /ě/. This vowel underwent various alterations in the later Slavic dialects and is no longer distinguished (except in Ijekavian).

yat (plural yats)

1. (MLE, African-American Vernacular, slang) Alternative spelling of yatt (“woman”)
   • 2016 March 4, “3 Wheel-Ups” (track 4), in Made in the Manor‎, performed by Kano (British musician),Giggs (rapper),Wiley (musician):

     [Chorus:Kano]:3 wheel-ups in a row, that means I'm a direct rudeboy. 2 2 yats of my own that means I'm a direct rudeboy.

   • 2018 November 30, “Bits” (track 10), in Original Sounds‎, performed by Bru-C and Window Kid:

     Quick cash, flip that, now I got big cash. Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.

   • 2020 October 29, “Fire in the Booth”‎performed by Dizzee Rascal:

     One fat batty yat let me hold her baps. I let her hold the sack and that's tit for tat.

• AYT, Tay, tay

yat

1. remembrance, memory

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɑt

From Ottoman Turkish یاط (yat), from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.

yat (definite accusative yatı, plural yatlar)

1. yacht
   • 1936 August 22, “İngiliz kralı Korfo'da [King of England in Corfu]”, in Türk Sözü, page 1:

     İngiliz kralı sekizinci Edvard dün hususî yatiyle ve beraberinde iki İngiliz torpidosu olduğu halde buraya gelmiştir.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

From Proto-Turkic *jāt (“foreign(er)”).

• (standard spelling) yad

yat (definite accusative yatı, plural yatlar)

1. (dialectal) foreigner

yat

1. second-person singular imperative of yatmak

yat (nominative plural yats)

1. squirrel

• hiyat
• hiyatül
• yatül
• jiyat
• jiyatül

yat (definite form yat bi)

1. stick, cane

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 260