yah

An alternative pronunciation, equivalent of yeah and yes.

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

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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.

yah

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

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

• IPA^(key): /jɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

yah (plural yahs)

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

• gap yah

From you.

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.

• AYH, Hay, YHA, hay

Variant of yuh (“here”).

yah

1. here

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

yah

1. father (male parent)

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

yah?

1. Alternative form of yagh

Compare Carrier yoh (“house”)

yah

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

yah

1. not

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

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

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

yah (stem -yah-)

1. snow

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

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

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

yah (1957–1982 spelling yaƅ)

1. Classifier for elderly women.