# yap
## Translingual
### Symbol

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

## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jæp/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æp

### Noun

yap (countable and uncountable, plural yaps)
* (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
* (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.”
* (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.
    Shut your yap!
* (countable, Geordie) A badly behaved person, especially a child.
* (dated, slang) A fool.

#### References

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

### Verb

yap (third-person singular simple present yaps, present participle yapping, simple past and past participle yapped)
* (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
* (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
    You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.
* (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
** 2000, M.O.P., Ante Up:Ante up! Yap that fool!

#### Derived terms

* yapaholic
* yappatron
* yapper
* yappily
* yappy

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* APY, Pay, pay, pya

## Catawba
### Noun

yap
* tree; wood

#### Usage notes

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

#### Descendants

* English: yaupon

## Finnish
### Etymology

< Yap

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjɑp/, [ˈjɑ̝p]
* Rhymes: -ɑp

### Noun

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

#### Declension

Possessive forms of yap (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
yapini
accusative
nom.
yapini
gen.
yapini
genitive
yapini
partitive
yapiani
inessive
yapissani
elative
yapistani
illative
yapiini
adessive
yapillani
ablative
yapiltani
allative
yapilleni
essive
yapinani
translative
yapikseni
abessive
yapittani
instructive
comitative
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
yapisi
accusative
nom.
yapisi
gen.
yapisi
genitive
yapisi
partitive
yapiasi
inessive
yapissasi
elative
yapistasi
illative
yapiisi
adessive
yapillasi
ablative
yapiltasi
allative
yapillesi
essive
yapinasi
translative
yapiksesi
abessive
yapittasi
instructive
comitative
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
yapimme
accusative
nom.
yapimme
gen.
yapimme
genitive
yapimme
partitive
yapiamme
inessive
yapissamme
elative
yapistamme
illative
yapiimme
adessive
yapillamme
ablative
yapiltamme
allative
yapillemme
essive
yapinamme
translative
yapiksemme
abessive
yapittamme
instructive
comitative
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
yapinne
accusative
nom.
yapinne
gen.
yapinne
genitive
yapinne
partitive
yapianne
inessive
yapissanne
elative
yapistanne
illative
yapiinne
adessive
yapillanne
ablative
yapiltanne
allative
yapillenne
essive
yapinanne
translative
yapiksenne
abessive
yapittanne
instructive
comitative
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
yapinsa
accusative
nom.
yapinsa
gen.
yapinsa
genitive
yapinsa
partitive
yapiaan yapiansa
inessive
yapissaan yapissansa
elative
yapistaan yapistansa
illative
yapiinsa
adessive
yapillaan yapillansa
ablative
yapiltaan yapiltansa
allative
yapilleen yapillensa
essive
yapinaan yapinansa
translative
yapikseen yapiksensa
abessive
yapittaan yapittansa
instructive
comitative

#### Synonyms

* yapin kieli

## Pnar
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jap/

### Verb

yap
* to die

## Rade
### Verb

yap
* to count, tell, reckon or calculate
    Klei YapNumbers(literally, “the Accounting”)

## Tocharian B
### Etymology

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

### Noun

yap m sg
* millet
    Synonym: lyekṣye

#### Derived terms

* ypiye (“pertaining to millet”)

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

yap
* second-person singular imperative of yapmak