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yah

/jʌː/UK/jɑː/

yah adverb: yes. Also the pronunciation spelling of you.

Adverb

yah (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa) Yes.
    • Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.

Interjection

  1. An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster.

Noun

yah (plural yahs)

  1. (UK, informal) An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.

Proper noun capitalized: Yah

Yah

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Jah more closely representing the Hebrew pronunciation.

Also used as

yah is also the pronunciation spelling of you.

Examples of yah in a sentence

  • I don't care about your stupid party anyway, so yah boo to you.
  • “Yah, I sign already,” my mother replied.
  • The sneers about my gap yah.

All 10 example sentences with yah

Forms of yah

Noun
pluralyahs
Proper noun
alternative formJah

Origin of yah

An alternative pronunciation, equivalent of yeah and yes.

From the pronunciation of “yes” which such people use.

From you.

Questions about yah

What does yah mean?
Yah means yes.
What part of speech is yah?
Yah can be an adverb, an interjection, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce yah?
Yah is pronounced /jʌː/.

Words near yah in the dictionary

  1. yagura
  2. yaguranage
  3. yagya
  4. yagyas
  5. yagé
  6. yah
  7. yah boo
  8. yah boo sucks
  9. yah-boo
  10. Yah-ta-hey
  11. Yahatahigashi

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