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English
Etymology 1
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
an obsolete letter of the Cyrillic alphabet "Ѣ/ѣ"
Etymology 2
Noun
yat (plural yats)
- (MLE, African-American Vernacular, slang) Alternative spelling of yatt (“woman”)
2018 November 30, “Bits” (track 10), in Original Sounds, performed by Bru-C and Window Kid:Quick cash, flip that, now I got big cash. Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.
2020 October 29, “Fire in the Booth”performed by Dizzee Rascal:One fat batty yat let me hold her baps. I let her hold the sack and that's tit for tat.
Anagrams
Kalasha
Noun
yat
- remembrance, memory
Turkish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish یاط (yat), from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.
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 quotation)
Declension
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)”).
Alternative forms
Noun
yat (definite accusative yatı, plural yatlar)
- (dialectal) foreigner
Etymology 3
Verb
yat
- second-person singular imperative of yatmak
Volapük
Noun
yat (nominative plural yats)
- squirrel
Declension
declension of yat
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Derived terms
Wolof
Noun
yat (definite form yat bi)
- stick, cane
References
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 260