yab
English edit
Etymology edit
From yap.
Verb edit
yab (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 edit
Afar edit
Etymology edit
From yaabé (“to talk, speak”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
yáb m (plural yaaboobá f)
Declension edit
| Declension of yáb | ||||||||||||||||||
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| absolutive | yáb | |||||||||||||||||
| predicative | yáaba | |||||||||||||||||
| subjective | yáb | |||||||||||||||||
| genitive | yabtí | |||||||||||||||||
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Verb edit
yáb
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)