yaa

Abbreviation of English Yaminahua.

yaa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Yaminahua.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yaminahua terms

yaa (plural yaas)

1. The letter ي (y) in the Arabic script.

• Some Arabic-based languages use variations of the letter, e.g. Persian uses ی (ye).

• AYA, Aya, aya

• IPA^(key): /ˈjaː/ [ˈjaː]
• Hyphenation: yaa

yáa f 

1. syncopic form of yayyá

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 143

From Proto-Athabaskan *yaˑ

yaa

1. sky

• yabaaghe (“horizon”)
• yaziił (“common snipe”)
• yanlaey (“cloud, cloud cover”)
• yaykaas (“northern lights”)
• yadibaey (“northern lights”)
• yakoneʼ (“red northern lights”)

• Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictiionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 419

yaa

1. temazcal, a type of sweat lodge, usually built with adobe bricks

yaa

1. to him/her/it
2. about him/her/it

yaa

1. down, downward

• ayaaí hooghan
• yaago

yaa

1. nopal

yaa

1. sea trout

Cognate with Alcozauca Mixtec yâá, Chayuco Mixtec yaa, San Juan Colorado Mixtec yaa, San Miguel el Grande Mixtec yáa.

yaa

1. tongue
2. flame

Cognate with Alcozauca Mixtec yaa, Chayuco Mixtec yaa, San Juan Colorado Mixtec yáa, San Miguel el Grande Mixtec yaā.

yaa

1. song
2. music

Cognate with Chayuco Mixtec ñiyaa, San Juan Colorado Mixtec nyaà, San Miguel el Grande Mixtec yaā.

yaa

1. ash
2. hominy

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012), Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[2] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 89