yap

Clipping of English Yapese.

yap

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Yapese.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yapese terms

Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal yap, yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”), from Middle English ȝælpen, variant of yelpen (“to yelp”). More at yelp.

• IPA^(key): /jæp/

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• Rhymes: -æp

yap (countable and uncountable, plural yaps)

1. (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
2. (uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter.
   • 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:

     Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.

   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 190:

     They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”

3. (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.

   Shut your yap!

4. (countable, Geordie) A badly behaved person, especially a child.
5. (dated, slang) A fool.

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “YAP”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.

yap (third-person singular simple present yaps, present participle yapping, simple past and past participle yapped)

1. (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
2. (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.

   You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.

3. (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
   • 2000, M.O.P., Ante Up:

     Ante up! Yap that fool!

• APY, Pay, pay, pya

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-r(j)əp (“to stand”).

• (Myanmar) /jap˧/
• (Lianghe) [ʑɯk⁵⁵]
• (Longchuan) [ʑap⁵⁵]
• (Luxi) [liap³¹]
• (Xiandao) [jap⁵⁵]

yap

1. to stand

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[1], Payap University, page 142

yap

1. tree; wood

The word is also represented ya, yop, ya’p, yo’p.

• English: yaupon

< Yap

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑp/, [ˈjɑ̝p]
• Rhymes: -ɑp

yap

1. Yapese (Austronesian language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia, especially by the inhabitants of Yap)

• yapin kieli

From Proto-Khasian *ja:p. Cognate with Khasi ïap.

• IPA^(key): /jap/

yap

1. to die

yap

1. to count, tell, reckon or calculate

   Klei Yap

   Numbers

   (literally, “the Accounting”)

From Proto-Indo-European *yéw-o-m, from *yéwos, from *yew-, *yewh₁- (“to ripen, mature”), whence yu-. Compare Sanskrit यव (yáva, “barley”).

yap m sg

1. millet

   Synonym: lyekṣye

• ypiye (“pertaining to millet”)

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yap

1. second-person singular imperative of yapmak