See also: يا and ئا

Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading?
Dari reading?
Iranian reading?
Tajik reading? yo

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾywp /⁠ayāb⁠/), Manichaean script: 𐫀𐫏𐫀𐫁 (ʾyʾb /⁠ayāb⁠/). Cognate with Parthian 𐫀𐫃𐫀𐫖 (ʾgʾm /⁠āgām⁠/). Further etymology unclear; not found in Old Persian.

Conjunction

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Dari یا
Iranian Persian
Tajik ё

یا ()

  1. or
    امروز یا فردا می‌روید؟ (more literary)
    emruz fardâ mi-ravid?
    امرو یا فردا می‌رین؟ (more colloquial)
    emru fardâ mi-rin?
    Are you going today or tomorrow?
    • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 12”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]‎[1]:
      عزم دیدار تو دارد جانِ بر لب آمده
      باز گردد یا برآید؟ چیست فرمان شما؟
      azm-i dîdâr-i tu dârad jân-i bar lab âmada
      bâz gardad bar-âyad? čî-st farmân-i šumâ?
      My soul, resolved to see you, has come to the edge;
      Shall it go back, or come forth? Which do you command?
      (romanization in Classical Persian)
  2. either
    یا امروز یا فردا
    emruz fardâ
    either today or tomorrow
Descendants
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  • Arabic:
  • Azerbaijani: ya
  • Bashkir: йә ()
  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: या ()
    Urdu: یا ()
  • Kannada: ಯಾ ()
  • Ottoman Turkish: یا (ya)
    • Turkish: ya
  • Turkmen: ýa

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Arabic يَا ().

Interjection

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Dari یا
Iranian Persian
Tajik ё

یا ()

  1. (chiefly in religious set phrases) O
    Synonym: ای (ey)
    یا علی 'aliO Ali (common religious phrase among Shia Muslims)

Southern Kurdish

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Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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یا (ya)

  1. Alternative form of ئەۊ (eẅ)

Etymology 2

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Northern Kurdish yan
Central Kurdish یان (yan)

From Arabic يَا ().

Preposition

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یا (ya)

  1. or
  2. neither

Urdu

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Classical Persian یا ().

Conjunction

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یا () (Hindi spelling या)

  1. or

Etymology 2

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From Arabic يَا ().

Interjection

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یا ()

  1. oh!