different between yas vs yah

English

Interjection

yas

1. (often African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard spelling of yes.

Pronoun

yas

1. Nonstandard spelling of yous.

Derived terms

• yas'm

Further reading

• "Where Does "YAAAS" Come From?" in Bustle

Anagrams

• AYs, ays, say

Aleut

Pronunciation

• (Western) IPA^(key): /?jas/

Noun

yas

1. (Western) reef (rocks at or near surface of water)

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Navajo

Alternative forms

• zas (Eastern Navajo)

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *y?x?s. Cognate with Sarcee zas, Chipewyan ya?, Beaver yas, Carrier yv?, Sekani yas, Ahtna yaas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??s/

Noun

yas

1. (Western Navajo) snow

Derived terms

• yas dit?é?é (“wet snow”)
• Yas Ni?t?ees
• yaskáá?

English

Etymology 1

An alternative pronunciation, akin to yeah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??/, /j??/

Adverb

yah (not comparable)

1. (Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Yes.

   Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.

Translations

Interjection

yah

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

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??/

Noun

yah (plural yahs)

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

Translations

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

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 ???? or ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography ya?)

1. wife
2. mother-in-law (husband's mother)
3. old woman; granny

Classifier

yah (old orthography ya?)

1. Classifier for elderly women.