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Yakubian

Yakubian is the alternative form of Yacoubian.

Adjective

Yakubian (comparative more Yakubian, superlative most Yakubian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Yakub.
    • Whatever form these enemies assume, it becomes the Yakubian “other” that must be overcome because of the extent to which it is anathema to the “cause” the visionary seeks to uphold.1998, Michael Lieb, Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 200
    • However, the introduction of fancy and fantasy into the equation, precisely at the juncture where concrete plans for overthrowing white rule would have been expected, strongly suggests an inability to conceive of black folk actually establishing a new and different social order, and it raises...2005 March 21, Michael A. Gomez, Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 329
  2. (Internet, derogatory, ethnic, slur) Of or pertaining to white people.
    • my question is. . .who's more detrimental to hip-hop----the north-faced goons that line up for eminem, the indie rockers that dig coflow, or the "post-label shapeshifting yakubian legions" (to paraphrase one of pedestrian's finer turns of phrase) who jock the fellowship?1999 January 13, nfri...@haverford.edu, “Last night's Eminem show.”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 17 Apr 2022
    • but yo, doesn't e have special significance to the nation, as they feel placing the "I" before "E" except after "C" preferences the (now known to be unintellible) internalist notion find intelligibility's primacy in the subjectivized I (a la) rather then the involved 5 senses (here signed in e, the...1999 August 31, hypochristmutreefuzz, “A Conspiracy among White Rappers?”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 17 Apr 2022

Meaning of Yacoubian

Proper noun

Yacoubian (plural Yacoubians)

  1. A surname from Armenian.

Forms of Yakubian

Proper noun
pluralYakubians
Adjective
comparativemore Yakubian
superlativemost Yakubian

Origin of Yakubian

From Armenian Յակուբյան (Yakubyan).

From Yakub + -ian. In the mythology of the Nation of Islam, Yakub was an ancient Meccan scientist who created the white race with an evil nature. The word does not appear to have been used in any official NOI publication, suggesting that it is of external origin.

Questions about Yakubian

What does Yakubian mean?
Yakubian means of or pertaining to Yakub.
What is Yakubian the alternative form of?
Yakubian is the alternative form of Yacoubian.
What part of speech is Yakubian?
Yakubian is an adjective.

Words near Yakubian in the dictionary

  1. yakskin
  2. yakskins
  3. Yakthung
  4. Yakthungs
  5. yaku
  6. Yakubian
  7. Yakubians
  8. Yakubik
  9. Yakubov
  10. Yakubovs
  11. Yakubyan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yakubian (page history and authors); Yacoubian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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