yab
English
editEtymology
editFrom yap.
Verb
edityab (third-person singular simple present yabs, present participle yabbing, simple past and past participle yabbed)
- (Nigeria, transitive, intransitive) To satirize or roast; to abuse verbally.
- 1974, Afriscope, volume 4, numbers 1-6, page 42:
- But in between the bouts of light-hearted yabbing Fela began to insert serious political challenges. He attacked prevalent attitudes towards self determination which he abhorred. He stated that black people were being robbed.
Related terms
editAnagrams
editAfar
editEtymology
editFrom yaabé (“to talk, speak”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edityáb m (plural yaaboobá f)
Declension
editDeclension of yáb | ||||||||||||||||||
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absolutive | yáb | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | yáaba | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | yáb | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | yabtí | |||||||||||||||||
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Verb
edityáb
References
edit- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “yab”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)