yas
English
[edit]Interjection
[edit]yas
- (often African-American Vernacular, LGBTQ or valley girl, slang) Nonstandard spelling of yes.
- 1862, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862[1]:
- 'Oh! yas, I smokes; but I durned sight d'ruther chaw.'
- 1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 175:
- "Yas, yas!" they cried, with broader grins and many nods.
- 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass[2]:
- It's nice, yas, and it's paid for.
Derived terms
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]yas
- Nonstandard spelling of yous.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- "Where Does "YAAAS" Come From?" in Bustle
Anagrams
[edit]Aleut
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yas
- (Western) reef (rocks at or near surface of water)
References
[edit]- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Azerbaijani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *yās (“damage, loss; shame”). Compare, however, also Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs, “despair”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]yas (definite accusative yası, plural yaslar)
Declension
[edit]Declension of yas | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | yas |
yaslar | ||||||
definite accusative | yası |
yasları | ||||||
dative | yasa |
yaslara | ||||||
locative | yasda |
yaslarda | ||||||
ablative | yasdan |
yaslardan | ||||||
definite genitive | yasın |
yasların |
Further reading
[edit]- “yas” in Obastan.com.
Beaver
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognate with Tsuut'ina zas, Chipewyan yaθ, Ahtna yaas, Carrier yvθ, Sekani yas, Navajo yas.
Noun
[edit]yas
References
[edit]- Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.
Indonesian
[edit]Noun
[edit]yas (first-person possessive yasku, second-person possessive yasmu, third-person possessive yasnya)
Navajo
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- zas (Eastern Navajo)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognate with Tsuut'ina zas, Chipewyan yaθ, Beaver yas, Carrier yvθ, Sekani yas, Ahtna yaas.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yas
- (Western Navajo) snow
Derived terms
[edit]- yas ditłéʼé (“wet snow”)
- Yas Niłtʼees
- yaskááʼ
Sekani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognate with Tsuut'ina zas, Chipewyan yaθ, Beaver yas, Carrier yvθ, Navajo yas, Ahtna yaas.
Noun
[edit]yas
References
[edit]- Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: yas
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]yas m (plural yases)
- (Costa Rica) coyo avocado (Persea schiedeana) (the tree or its fruit)
- Synonyms: chucte, chinín, pahua, coyo, aguacamico, aguacate de mico, aguacate de monte
Further reading
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]yas m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “yas” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010
Talysh
[edit]Noun
[edit]yas
Tat
[edit]Noun
[edit]yas
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یاس (yâs), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yās (“loss, damage; shame”) (see there for cognates). The semantic development may have been influenced by unrelated Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs, “despair”), whence also the borrowing yeis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yas (definite accusative yası, plural yaslar)
Declension
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Definite accusative | yası | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | yas | yaslar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | yası | yasları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | yasa | yaslara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | yasta | yaslarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | yastan | yaslardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | yasın | yasların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Further reading
[edit]- “yas”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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