different between yaa vs yad

English

Noun

yaa (plural yaas)

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

Translations

Usage notes

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

Anagrams

• AYA, Aya, aya

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ja?/

Noun

yáa f 

1. Apocopic form of yayya

References

• 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

Chichicapan Zapotec

Noun

yaa

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

Navajo

Postposition

yaa

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

Inflection

Adverb

yaa

1. down, downward

Tataltepec Chatino

Noun

yaa

1. nopal

Yosondúa Mixtec

Etymology 1

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

Noun

yaa

1. tongue
2. flame

Etymology 2

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

Noun

yaa

1. song
2. music

Etymology 3

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

Noun

yaa

1. ash
2. hominy

References

• 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

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hebrew ??? (yád, “hand”)

Noun

yad (plural yads or yadim)

1. (Judaism) A pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading.

Etymology 2

From the Tifinagh alphabet.

Noun

yad

1. The letter ? in the Tifinagh alphabet.

Anagrams

• Day, d'ya, day, ? Day

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [j?d]

Etymology 1

From Common Turkic *y?t (“alien, foreign, unfamiliar”). Cognate with Bashkir ?? (yat), Kazakh ??? (jat),Uzbek yot (“alien, foreign”), Turkmen ýat etc.

Adjective

yad (comparative daha yad, superlative ?n yad)

1. alien, strange, foreign
2. unfamiliar

   Synonym: özg?

Derived terms

• yadplanetli (“extraterrestrial”)

Noun

yad (definite accusative yad?, plural yadlar)

1. stranger

   Synonym: özg?

Declension

Derived terms

• yadplanetli (“alien”)

Etymology 2

From Persian ???? (yâd).

Noun

yad (definite accusative yad?, plural yadlar)

1. memory

Declension

Derived terms

• yadda? (“memory”)
• yadda qalmaq (“to remember”)
• yadda saxlamaq (“to remember”)
• yaddan ç?xmaq (“to forget”)
• yada dü?m?k (“to come to mind”)
• yada salmaq (“to remind”)

Related terms

• yadigar (“memento”)

Pali

Alternative forms

Pronoun

yad

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of ya (“which (relative)”)

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from non-rhotic English yard.

Noun

yad (nominative plural yads)

1. yard

Declension