य

• IPA^(key): /jə/ (may vary by language)

य (ya)

1. the first semivowel of the Devanagari script

• Linguistically, it is considered the palatal approximant.

Ligatures:

• द्य (dya): द + य
• ह्य (hya): ह + य

• IPA^(key): [jə]

य • (ya)

1. The twenty-first consonant in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /jə/, [jɐ]

य • (ya)

1. the twenty-sixth consonant in Hindi

• Devanagari script letters: अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, अं, अः, अँ, क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, श, ष, स, ह, त्र, ज्ञ, क्ष, क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, झ़, ड़, ढ़, फ़ ^[edit]

• IPA^(key): /jə/

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य • (ya)

1. The twenty-fifth consonant in Marathi.

• IPA^(key): /jʌ/, /e/

य • (ya)

1. The twenty-sixth consonant in Nepali.

य m

1. Devanagari script form of ya (“who (relative)”)

य n

1. Devanagari script form of ya (“which (relative)”)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[1] (overall work in Pali), page 250; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     अथ सब्बासं विभत्तीनं यानि यानि पुब्बानि छ पदानि तानि तानि परस्सपदसञ्ञानि होन्ति।

     Atha sabbāsaṃ vibhattīnaṃ yāni yāni pubbāni cha padāni, tāni tāni parassapadasaññāni honti.

     Then whatever are the first six endings of all the endings, they are called the active endings.

The case form यद् (yad) is only used before vowels and as the prefixed combining form. Before vowels, the halant and independent vowel coalesce to the corresponding dependent vowel.

य m

1. the Pali letter 'y'
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[2] (overall work in Pali), page 12; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     को यस्स यथा-सको।

     Ko yassa yathā-sako.

     'K' from 'y' as in 'sako'.

• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /jɐ/

य • (ya)

1. the twenty-fourth consonant in Sanskrit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

य • (ya) stem, m

1. (prosody) bacchius
2. fame
3. carriage
4. light
5. an act of restraining
6. an act of joining

• Monier Williams (1899) “य”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 838, columns 1-2.

• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “ya”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.