يه

Arabic

Adverb

يَه • (yah, yeh) (Tihāma)

  1. aye, yes
    Alternative forms: يَاه (yāh), يِيه (yēh, yīh)
    Synonyms: إِي (ʔī), نَعَم (naʕam)
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 183:
      «درستُ إلى الصف الثالث الابتدائي». قلت: «إذاً أنتِ تعرفين القراءة والكتابة؟». ردّت: «يه».
      “I went to schol till the third elementary grade.” I said: “You know to read and write, then?” She replied: “Aye.”

Further reading

  • Piamenta, Moshe (1991) Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 537b
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