yas

yas

1. (often African-American Vernacular, LGBTQ or valley girl, slang) Nonstandard spelling of yes.
   • 1862, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862‎:

     'Oh! yas, I smokes; but I durned sight d'ruther chaw.'

   • 1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 175:

     "Yas, yas!" they cried, with broader grins and many nods.

   • 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass‎:

     It's nice, yas, and it's paid for.

yas

1. Nonstandard spelling of yous.

• yas'm

• "Where Does "YAAAS" Come From?" in Bustle

• AYs, ays, say

• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈjas/

yas

1. (Western) reef (rocks at or near surface of water)

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

From Proto-Turkic *yās (“damage, loss; shame”). Compare, however, also Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs, “despair”).

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yas (definite accusative yası, plural yaslar)

1. mourning

   yas saxlamaq ― to mourn

2. wake, funeral repast

   yas mərasimi ― wake ceremony

• “yas” in Obastan.com.

From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognate with Tsuut'ina zas, Chipewyan yaθ, Ahtna yaas, Carrier yvθ, Sekani yas, Navajo yas.

yas

1. snow

• Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.

yas (first-person possessive yasku, second-person possessive yasmu, third-person possessive yasnya)

1. hias

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• zas (Eastern Navajo)

From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognate with Tsuut'ina zas, Chipewyan yaθ, Beaver yas, Carrier yvθ, Sekani yas, Ahtna yaas.

• IPA^(key): /jɑ̀s/

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yas

1. (Western Navajo) snow

• yas ditłéʼé (“wet snow”)
• Yas Niłtʼees
• yaskááʼ

From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognate with Tsuut'ina zas, Chipewyan yaθ, Beaver yas, Carrier yvθ, Navajo yas, Ahtna yaas.

yas

1. snow

• Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.

• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: yas

yas m (plural yases)

1. (Costa Rica) coyo avocado (Persea schiedeana) (the tree or its fruit)

   Synonyms: chucte, chinín, pahua, coyo, aguacamico, aguacate de mico, aguacate de monte

• Persea schiedeana
• El yas - Persea schiedeana - Lauraceae - MundoForestal

Borrowed from English jacks.

yas m (uncountable)

1. (games) Alternative form of jacks

• “yas” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010

yas

1. mourning, grief

yas

1. mourning, grief

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یاس (yâs), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yās (“loss, damage; shame”) (see there for cognates). The semantic development may have been influenced by unrelated Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs, “despair”), whence also the borrowing yeis.

• IPA^(key): /jɑs/

yas (definite accusative yası, plural yaslar)

1. mourning

• “yas”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu