yab

From yap.

yab (third-person singular simple present yabs, present participle yabbing, simple past and past participle yabbed)

1. (Nigeria, ambitransitive) To satirize or roast; to abuse verbally.
   • 1974, Afriscope, volume 4, numbers 1-6, page 42:

     But in between the bouts of light-hearted yabbing Fela began to insert serious political challenges. He attacked prevalent attitudes towards self determination which he abhorred. He stated that black people were being robbed.

• yabbi

• aby, bya, Aby, yBa, bay, Bay, ABY, YBA

From yaabé (“to talk, speak”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjab/ [ˈjʌb]
• Hyphenation: yab

yáb m (plural yaaboobá f)

1. conversation
2. insult
3. news, information
4. (sociolinguistics) dialect

yáb

1. imperative singular of yaabé

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “yab”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-r(j)əp (“to stand”). Cognates include Burmese ရပ် (rap).

• (Waingmaw) IPA^(key): [jæp̚˧˧]
• (Mongko) IPA^(key): [jaːp̚˧˩]
• Hyphenation: yab

yab

1. (intransitive) to stand
   • 2005, “Apoem ayang꞉ 41:1 [Genesis 41:1]”, in Jhoem꞉ mougsougˮ [The Book of the Bible]‎^[2], page 66:

     Eig zain myangˮ thang꞉ Egutu khokham yhoeb moꓹ myang zigi nyang꞉ gi Nila gyid lang yam moo yhe꞉ yab nyid.

     Two years later the king of Egypt saw a dream that he was standing beside the river Nile.

• Qingxia Dai, Jie Li (2007) 勒期语研究 [The study of the Leqi language], Beijing: Central Institute for Nationalities Publishing House, →ISBN, page 326
• Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language‎^[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 26
• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 21