# yaka
## Chinook Jargon
### Pronoun

yaka
* he, she, it, him, her
* his, her, its

#### See also

* klaska

## Jamamadí
### Verb

yaka
* (Banawá) to walk

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Japanese
### Romanization

yaka
* Rōmaji transcription of やか

## Nupe
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jā.ká/

### Noun

yaká (plural yakázhì)
* Capsicum frutescens (chili pepper)
    Synonym: yakági

#### Derived terms

* yakági
* yakákó

## Ometepec Nahuatl
### Noun

yaka
* nose

## Tocharian B
### Adverb

yaka
* nevertheless
* furthermore

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یاقه (yaka), from Proto-Turkic *yaka (“collar; edge”) . Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jaqa, “collar”), Kazakh жаға (jağa, “collar”), Kyrgyz жака (jaka, “collar; shore, bank”),Uzbek yoqa (“collar; side; shore, bank”), Khakas чаға (çağa, “trousers/pants' belt; edge”), Yakut саҕа (sağa, “collar; edge”), etc.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

yaka (definite accusative yakayı, plural yakalar)
* collar
    gömleğimin yakası ― the collar of my shirt
* side (of a district or geographical feature)
    Avrupa Yakası ― European Side
* (nautical) edge of a sail

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
yaka
yakalar
definite accusative
yakayı
yakaları
dative
yakaya
yakalara
locative
yakada
yakalarda
ablative
yakadan
yakalardan
genitive
yakanın
yakaların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
yakam
yakalarım
2nd singular
yakan
yakaların
3rd singular
yakası
yakaları
1st plural
yakamız
yakalarımız
2nd plural
yakanız
yakalarınız
3rd plural
yakaları
yakaları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
yakamı
yakalarımı
2nd singular
yakanı
yakalarını
3rd singular
yakasını
yakalarını
1st plural
yakamızı
yakalarımızı
2nd plural
yakanızı
yakalarınızı
3rd plural
yakalarını
yakalarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
yakama
yakalarıma
2nd singular
yakana
yakalarına
3rd singular
yakasına
yakalarına
1st plural
yakamıza
yakalarımıza
2nd plural
yakanıza
yakalarınıza
3rd plural
yakalarına
yakalarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
yakamda
yakalarımda
2nd singular
yakanda
yakalarında
3rd singular
yakasında
yakalarında
1st plural
yakamızda
yakalarımızda
2nd plural
yakanızda
yakalarınızda
3rd plural
yakalarında
yakalarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
yakamdan
yakalarımdan
2nd singular
yakandan
yakalarından
3rd singular
yakasından
yakalarından
1st plural
yakamızdan
yakalarımızdan
2nd plural
yakanızdan
yakalarınızdan
3rd plural
yakalarından
yakalarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
yakamın
yakalarımın
2nd singular
yakanın
yakalarının
3rd singular
yakasının
yakalarının
1st plural
yakamızın
yakalarımızın
2nd plural
yakanızın
yakalarınızın
3rd plural
yakalarının
yakalarının :

#### Derived terms

* yakalamak (“to collar, seize, apprehend”)

### References

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yaka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2189
* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

## Wauja
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jaˈka/

### Noun

yaka
* spectacled (White or common) caiman, caimans, Caiman crocodilus.
    Yaka WEke. Ah, kawikaapapai ka jouhan! ... Yakakuma jano han!
       [He was a] gigantic caiman. Ah, [he] was terrifying indeed, that one! ....[The] Caiman Spirit, he was!
    Iye ejekujata ipitsi, ayakatapai umapai. EjekuJAtapai tonejunaun. Ipitsi ja umapai: ayakatawi.
    Kamani iya yaka okaho?
    Itsa ejekuJAtapai, ententsapai kupato. Ipitsi inyaun wi, kata inyaun, kata enojanaun, iya ayakata, umakonapai yiu whun, iya ententsapai papisulu.
       [Mayanu:] When someone goes to await [someone] — that's what ayakatapai means. [When men] wait [patiently] a long time for women. That's what we call ayakatapai.
       [Anthropologist asks why the word mentions the caiman.]
       [Kaomo:] That's how [caimans] wait, motionless — they're on the lookout for fish. So [you say the] same thing about those people, those men, who go to await their lovers, [who stand alert and motionless], waiting for [the] women [to come out of their houses].

#### Derived terms

* ayakata (“awaits a lover”)
* Yakaojokuma (“Great Caiman Spirit”)

### References

* Species identification from E. Ireland field notes, confirmed with Piitsa, Muri, and other elders (all experienced hunters) in 1982 using José Cândido de Melo Carvalho's Atlas da Fauna Brasileira, Edições Melhoramentos, São Paulo, 1981.
* "Yaka WEke" (transcript, pp. 18-19), and "Aminya yikiyantawi!" (p. 31) uttered by Arutatumpa, storyteller and elder, and members of his audience, as he recounted the traditional tale, the "Caiman Spirit" (Yakaojokuma). Recorded in Piyulaga village in the presence of assembled elders and others, November 1989. Recorded in BBC film, "The Storyteller."
* "Iye ejekujata" (transcript p. 84), uttered by Mayano and his father Kaomo, upon listening to a recording of Arutatumpa's performance of the Yakaojokuma story.

## Ye'kwana
### Alternative forms

* dhaka, daka (Cunucunuma River dialect)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɟaka]

### Verb

yaka (Caura River dialect, transitive)
* to fell, to cut down or hack at (trees)
* to assart, to clear (trees and plants) from a field or garden in slash-and-burn agriculture

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yaka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
* Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 219, 387: “da:ka 'he cuts me' […] da:ka - he cuts me”
* Hall, Katherine (2007) “yaʔka-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
* Hall, Katherine (2007) “ukā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

## Zacatepec Chatino
### Etymology

From Proto-Chatino *yaka, from Proto-Zapotecan *yaka.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ja.ka/

### Noun

yaka
* tree
* wood

#### Derived terms

* yaka naʔan
* yaka yoo

### References

* Stéphanie Villard (2015) The Phonology and Morphology of Zacatepec Eastern Chatino‎, University of Texas at Austin (PhD thesis), page 53