Yalla

See also: Yàlla

Afar

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يَا اللّٰه‎ (yā llāh, “Oh God”). The vocative meaning was lost.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈjʌlːʌ/
  • Hyphenation: Yal‧la

Proper noun

Yálla m

  1. God

Declension
Declension of Yálla
absolutive Yálla
predicative Yálla
subjective Yallí
genitive Yallí

Synonyms

References
  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “Yalla”, 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)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
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