yakni

Choctaw

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *ixakanika.

Noun

yakni (transcription yakní', alienable)

  1. the Earth, the world
  2. earth, soil, ground
  3. country
    Chahta yakni
    Choctaw country

Declension

    possessive (alienable) singularpaucalplural
    first-person ("my, our") a̱yaknipi̱yaknihapi̱yakni
    second-person ("thy, your") chi̱yaknihachi̱yakni
    third-person ("his, her,
    its, their")
    i̱yakni

    Indonesian

    Etymology

    From Malay yaini, yakni, ya`ani, from Classical Malay ينا (iáni), يني (iany), ياءني (ya`ni), يعني (yakni), from Arabic يَعْنِي (yaʕnī).[1]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈjaʔni/
    • Rhymes: -ni, -i
    • Hyphenation: yak‧ni

    Conjunction

    yakni

    1. that is, in other words, i.e.

    Synonyms

    References

    1. Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

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