yamyam
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From yamar.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: yam‧yam
Noun edit
yamyam
- an incantation
Verb edit
yamyam
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:yamyam.
Anagrams edit
Masbatenyo edit
Noun edit
yamyam
Derived terms edit
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From 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 edit
Noun edit
yamyam (definite accusative yamyamı, plural yamyamlar)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- yamyamlık (“cannibalism”)
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yamyam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5189