yat
English
Alternative forms
Noun
yat (plural yats)
- A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use
- The Late Proto-Slavic (Common Slavic) vowel that was represented by this letter, usually transcribed as /ě/. This vowel underwent various alterations in the later Slavic dialects and is no longer distinguished (except in Ijekavian).
Translations
Noun
yat (plural yats)
- (MLE, African-American Vernacular, slang) Alternative spelling of yatt (“woman”)
Kalasha
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjɑt/
- Rhymes: -ɑt
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish یات, from English yacht.
Noun
yat (definite accusative yatı, plural yatlar)
- yacht
- 1936 August 22, “İngiliz kralı Korfo'da [King of England in Corfu]”, in Türk Sözü, page 1:
- İngiliz kralı sekizinci Edvard dün hususî yatiyle ve beraberinde iki İngiliz torpidosu olduğu halde buraya gelmiştir.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
Etymology 2
From Proto-Turkic *jāt (“foreign(er)”).
Volapük
Declension
Derived terms
- hiyat
- hiyatül
- yatül
- jiyat
- jiyatül
Wolof
References
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 260
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