yaya

From Tagalog yaya.

yaya (plural yayas)

1. (Philippines) A nanny.

yaya

1. star

• Hyphenation: ya‧ya
• IPA^(key): /ˈjaja/

yaya

1. a weak feeling in the limbs

Unknown.

• Hyphenation: ya‧ya
• IPA^(key): /ˈjaʔjaʔ/, [ˈjaʔ.jʌʔ]

yaya

1. slow
2. clumsy
3. stretched out

Borrowed from Spanish yaya (“granny”). Compare Catalan iaia.

• Hyphenation: ya‧ya
• IPA^(key): /ˈjaja/, [ˈja.jʌ]

yaya

1. (sometimes derogatory) a nanny
2. an address to one's nanny

yaya

1. to work or act as a nanny

Unknown.

yaya

1. a tree, Gonocaryum calleryanum

For quotations using this term, see Citations:yaya.

yaya

1. to cry

yaya

1. he; she

yaya

1. Rōmaji transcription of やや

yaya

1. Romanization of ᠶᠠᠶᠠ

yaya

1. nursemaid; babysitter

• IPA^(key): /jà.já/

yàyá

1. senior
2. elder cousin

yaya

1. as if

yaya

1. greatest, supreme

yaya

1. father
2. grandfather, old man
3. paternal uncle
4. wise man, elder, priest
5. god

• tayta

Perhaps from Modern Greek γιαγιά (giagiá, “grandmother”). Or more likely simply a feminine of yayo (see there for further etymology).

• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Syllabification: ya‧ya

yaya f (plural yayas)

1. granny, gran
2. (Philippines) girl or woman employed to take care of children

• “yaya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Uncertain, but possibly from Portuguese aia (“maid”).

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yaya (ma class, plural mayaya)

1. nanny, babysitter

Borrowed from Spanish yaya (“granny”). Compare with Cebuano yaya, Catalan iaia.

• Hyphenation: ya‧ya
• IPA^(key): /ˈjaja/, [ˈja.jɐ]

yaya (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜌ, masculine yayo)

1. nursemaid; girl or woman employed to take care of children

   Synonym: ama

2. wet nurse

   Synonym: sisiwa

3. (by extension) helper; maid

   Synonyms: katulong, kasambahay, utusan, kriyada

• Hyphenation: ya‧ya
• IPA^(key): /ˈjajaʔ/, [ˈja.jɐʔ]

yayà (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜌ)

1. invitation; request; persuasion; inducement

   Synonyms: anyaya, imbitasyon, kayag, kumbida, yakag

• “yaya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

• IPA^(key): [ˈja.ja]

yaya

1. mother

   Synonym: hera

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Ottoman Turkish یایا‎ (yaya), from Old Turkic [script needed] (yadag). Cognate with Kazakh жаяу (jaäu) and Azerbaijani yayaq.

• IPA^(key): [jaja]

yaya (definite accusative yayayı, plural yayalar)

1. pedestrian; someone walking, instead of using a vehicle
2. (military, historical) foot soldier

• yayan

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Together with the polite baba (“father”), likely borrowed from Ternate yaya (“mother”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈja.ja/

yaya

1. mother

The term yaya is used for addressing one's mother, whereas the terms mama and mamu are used for referring to a mother.

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics