yamyam
Cebuano
editEtymology
editFrom yamar.
Pronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: yam‧yam
Noun
edityamyam
- an incantation
Verb
edityamyam
Quotations
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:yamyam.
Anagrams
editMasbatenyo
editNoun
edityamyam
Derived terms
editTurkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish یامیام (yâmyâm) meaning also “Niam-Niam”, an obsolete name used by 18th- and 19th-century French and British travellers for the Azande, an ethnic group of North Central Africa. The name is said to mean “great eaters” in the Dinka language, supposedly referring to cannibalistic propensities formerly ascribed to the Azande.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edityamyam (definite accusative yamyamı, plural yamyamlar)
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- yamyamlık (“cannibalism”)
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yamyam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5189
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- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- Cebuano verbs
- Cebuano reduplications
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- Masbatenyo nouns
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Dinka
- Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish nouns