yah

See also: Yah, and þah

English

Etymology 1

An alternative pronunciation, equivalent of yeah and yes.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

yah (not comparable)

1. (US, 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

expression used to encourage a horse to run faster

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: hopoti-hop
• French: hue (fr)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

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

upper-class person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• gap yah

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

• ai yah
• hi-yah
• kum ba yah
• lau yah
• OK yah
• yah boo
• yah-boo
• yah boo sucks

 

Anagrams

• AYH, Hay, YHA, hay

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

• ayah (ayahanda, aya, yah)
• bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba, papa)
• abah (aba, bah)
• rama

Manx

Interjection

yah?

1. Alternative form of yagh

Navajo

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ja˧/
• Tone numbers: ya⁶
• Hyphenation: yah

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.