yap

Translingual

Symbol

yap

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Yapese.

English

Etymology

Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal yap, yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”), from Middle English ȝælpen, variant of yelpen (“to yelp”). More at yelp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæp/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -æp

Noun

yap (countable and uncountable, plural yaps)

1. (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
2. (uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter.
   • 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:

     Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.

   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 190:

     They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”

3. (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.

   Shut your yap!

4. (countable, Geordie) A badly behaved child; a brat.

Translations

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN

Verb

yap (third-person singular simple present yaps, present participle yapping, simple past and past participle yapped)

1. (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
2. (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.

   You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.

3. (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
   • 2000, M.O.P., Ante Up:

     Ante up! Yap that fool!

Translations

Anagrams

• APY, Pay, pay, pya

Catawba

Noun

yap

1. tree; wood

Usage notes

The word is also represented ya, yop, ya’p, yo’p.

Descendants

• English: yaupon

Finnish

Etymology

< Yap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑp/,

Noun

yap

1. Yapese (Austronesian language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia, especially by the inhabitants of Yap)

Declension

Synonyms

• yapin kieli

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jap/

Verb

yap

1. to stand

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *ja:p. Cognate with Khasi ïap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jap/

Verb

yap

1. to die

Rade

Verb

yap

1. to count, tell, reckon or calculate

   Klei Yap

   Numbers

   (literally, “the Accounting”)

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *yéw-o-m, from *yéwos, from *yew-, *yewh₁- (“to ripen, mature”), whence yu-. Compare Sanskrit यव (yáva, “barley”).

Noun

yap m sg

1. millet

   Synonym: lyekṣye

Derived terms

• ypiye (“pertaining to millet”)

Turkish

Pronunciation

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Verb

yap

1. second-person singular imperative of yapmak