yab

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English

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Etymology

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From yap.

Verb

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yab (third-person singular simple present yabs, present participle yabbing, simple past and past participle yabbed)

  1. (Nigeria, transitive, intransitive) To satirize or roast; to abuse verbally.
    • 1974, Afriscope, volume 4, numbers 1-6, page 42:
      But in between the bouts of light-hearted yabbing Fela began to insert serious political challenges. He attacked prevalent attitudes towards self determination which he abhorred. He stated that black people were being robbed.
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Anagrams

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Afar

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Etymology

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From yaabé (to talk, speak).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjab/ [ˈjʌb]
  • Hyphenation: yab

Noun

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yáb m (plural yaaboobá f)

  1. conversation
  2. insult or shame somebody
  3. news, information
  4. (sociolinguistics) dialect

Declension

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Declension of yáb
absolutive yáb
predicative yáaba
subjective yáb
genitive yabtí
Postpositioned forms
l-case yáabal
k-case yáabak
t-case yáabat
h-case yáabah

Verb

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yáb

  1. imperative singular of yaabé

References

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “yab”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)