yapat

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic يَا أَبَتِي (yā ʔabatī, “O my father!”).

Noun

yapát m (plural yapatát)

1. father

   yapati paca o sapi ― my father is still young at heart

Usage notes

• The singular of this word is used exclusively in the construct state. It always appears with a possessive suffix, as in yapáti (“my father”) or yapátak (“your father”).

Related terms

• yapó

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 135