yamma

English

Noun

yamma (plural yammas)

1. Obsolete spelling of llama
   • 1869, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, Buffon's Natural History, page 89:

     The yamma is variegated in colour, and has long slender legs; all have valuable wool or hair, but that of the alpaca is best known.

   • 1872, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton’s Brave Tales, Bold Ballads, and Travels and Perils by Land and Sea, pages 1008–1009:

     Some, indeed, go still further, saying that there is but one species, and that the Alpaca, Huanaco, and Yamma are but varieties of the Llama.

   • 1885, John George Wood, Popular Natural History, page 240:

     The Yamma, or Llama, is of brown or variegated color, and its legs are long and slender. In former days this animal was the only beast of burden which was possessed by the natives, and it was largely used by the Spaniards (who described it as a sheep) for the same purpose.

References

• “Yamma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Choctaw

Alternative forms

• yʋmma (traditional)

Pronoun

yamma

1. (distal demonstative) that, those
2. (emphatic) he, she, it, they

Inflection

Determiner

yamma

1. that, those
2. (distal demonstrative, with possessed noun) his, her, its, their

Adverb

yamma

1. there

Related terms

• yammak (“then”)

Interjection

yamma

1. indeed

See also

• ilappa (“this, here”)

Hausa

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /jâm.má/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Noun

yâmma f (possessed form yâmmar̃)

1. west

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /jâm.máː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Noun

yâmmā f (possessed form yâmmar̃)

1. afternoon

References

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 223.

Yagara

Noun

yamma

1. arm

References

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.