yab
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Etymology
From yap.
Verb
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
Anagrams
Etymology
From yaabé (“to talk, speak”).
Pronunciation
Noun
yáb m (plural yaaboobá f)
Declension
Verb
yáb
References
- 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), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
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