yama

• IPA^(key):

yama

1. mother

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

From Proto-Austronesian *ama-h.

yama

1. father

• yena

yama

1. (Banawá) thing

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

yama

1. Rōmaji transcription of やま

yama

1. Romanization of ꦪꦩ

Inherited from Chickasaw yamma (“yes, indeed”) and Choctaw yamma (“indeed”). Compare Alabama yamma (“that, those”), Creek yvmv (“this, those”)

• IPA^(key): /jaˈma/

yama^[1]

1. yes

• iksho

• Alabama: yamá (“Mobilian Jargon”)
• Koasati: Yama (“Mobilian Jargon”)

From Spanish llamar and Portuguese chamar.

yama

1. to call (shout)
2. to be called (one's name)
3. to call by telephone

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

-yáma

1. to touch

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• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /jaˈma/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ya‧ma

yamá (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜋ) (obsolete)

1. act of searching through junk
2. duty or responsibility

   Synonyms: tungkulin, sagutin, pananagutan

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈjamaʔ/
• Rhymes: -amaʔ
• Syllabification: ya‧ma

yamà (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜋ) (obsolete)

1. touch; sense of touch

   Synonym: hipo

• karayama

• ayam, maya

From Ottoman Turkish یامه (yama), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yama- (“to patch”),^[1] whence also Turkish yama- (“to patch”).

yama (definite accusative yamayı, plural yamalar)

1. birthmark
2. patch
3. (computing) patch
4. (film) reprint, slug, build-up
5. (surgery) graft

• ben
• leke

Borrowed from Hausa yamma.

• IPA^(key): /já.mà/

yámà

1. west, sunset

   Synonym: ìwọ̀-oòrùn