yah

An alternative pronunciation, akin to yeah.

• IPA^(key): /jʌː/, /jɑː/
• Rhymes: -ʌː, -ɑː

yah (not comparable)

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

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

yah

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

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

• IPA^(key): /jɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

yah (plural yahs)

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

• gap yah

From you.

yah

1. Pronunciation spelling of you.
   • 2006, Carmen Portnoy, The Money Pie: A Recipe for Women Investors, page 6:

     "Hey, Sis, do yah want a Hertz Donut?" one of them sweetly said as the other one held out a donut bag. She reached for it. Her step-sister snatched the bag away and socked her hard in the arm instead.

• AYH, Hay, YHA, hay

Variant of yuh (“here”).

yah

1. here

• IPA^(key): /jah/
• Rhymes: -jah, -ah

yah

1. father (male parent)

• ayah (ayahanda, aya, yah)
• bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba, papa)
• abah (aba, bah)
• rama

yah?

1. Alternative form of yagh

Compare Carrier yoh (“house”)

yah

1. inside, into an enclosed space, into an enclosure

yah

1. not

Karin Michelson; Norma Kennedy; Mercy Doxtator (2016) Glimpses of Oneida Life, University of Toronto, page 384

From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognates include Navajo yas and Dogrib zah.

• IPA^(key): /jàh/

yah

1. snow

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 99

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ja˧/
• Tone numbers: ya⁶
• Hyphenation: yah

yah (Sawndip forms 𫰈 or 𫰎 or 下 or 𡟺 or 𭑧 or 𫰫 or 吓, 1957–1982 spelling yaƅ)

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

yah (1957–1982 spelling yaƅ)

1. Classifier for elderly women.