yaya

From Tagalog yaya.

yaya (plural yayas)

1. (Philippines) A nanny.

yaya

1. star

• Hyphenation: ya‧ya
• IPA^(key): /ˈjaja/, [ˈja.ja]

yaya

1. a weak feeling in the limbs

Unknown.

• Hyphenation: ya‧ya
• IPA^(key): /ˈjaʔjaʔ/, [ˈjaʔ.jʌʔ]

yaya

1. slow
2. clumsy
3. stretched out

Borrowed from Spanish yaya (“granny”). Compare Catalan iaia.

• Hyphenation: ya‧ya
• IPA^(key): /ˈjaja/, [ˈja.jʌ]

yaya

1. (sometimes derogatory) a nanny
2. an address to one's nanny

yaya

1. to work or act as a nanny

Unknown.

yaya

1. a tree, Gonocaryum calleryanum

For quotations using this term, see Citations:yaya.

yaya

1. to cry

yaya

1. he; she

yaya

1. Rōmaji transcription of やや

yaya

1. Romanization of ᠶᠠᠶᠠ

yaya

1. nursemaid; babysitter

• IPA^(key): /jà.já/

yàyá

1. senior
2. elder cousin

yaya

1. as if

yaya

1. greatest, supreme

yaya

1. father
2. grandfather, old man
3. paternal uncle
4. wise man, elder, priest
5. god

• tayta

Perhaps from Modern Greek γιαγιά (giagiá, “grandmother”). Or more likely simply a feminine of yayo (see there for further etymology).

• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Syllabification: ya‧ya

yaya f (plural yayas)

1. granny, gran
2. (Philippines) girl or woman employed to take care of children

• “yaya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Uncertain, but possibly from Portuguese aia (“maid”) or an Indian language, such as Hindi आया (āyā, “dry nurse, nanny”).[1]

• Audio (Kenya)

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yaya (ma class, plural mayaya)

1. nanny, babysitter, ayah

Borrowed from Spanish yaya (“granny”). Compare with Cebuano yaya, Catalan iaia.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈjaja/ [ˈja.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: ya‧ya

yaya (masculine yayo, Baybayin spelling ᜌᜌ)

1. nanny; nursemaid; amah; girl or woman employed to take care of children

   Synonym: ama

2. wet nurse

   Synonyms: sisiwa, mamay

3. (by extension) helper; maid

   Synonyms: katulong, kasambahay, utusan, kriyada

Compare anyaya (“invitation”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈjajaʔ/ [ˈja.jɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -ajaʔ
• Syllabification: ya‧ya

yayà (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜌ)

1. invitation; request; persuasion; inducement

   Synonyms: pagyaya, anyaya, imbitasyon, kayag, kumbida, yakag

2. person invited (to come to a certain place or to help do something)

• aya

• anyaya

yayà (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜌ)

1. invited personally to help do certain work

   Synonyms: yakag, niyakag

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /jaˈja/ [jɐˈja]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ya‧ya

yayá (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜌ) (obsolete)

1. driving away or shooing maya birds

   Synonyms: bugaw, wasiwas, hiyaw, sibok

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /jaˈjaʔ/ [jɐˈjaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ya‧ya

yayâ (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜌ) (obsolete)

1. name of the Baybayin letter ᜌ, corresponding to "ya"

• “yaya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 171: “Combidar) Yaya (pp) llamando ꝑa combite fieſta o otra coſa”
  • page 396: “Llamar) Yaya (pp) combidando ꝑa algo”
  • page 437: “Munir) Yaya (pp) juntando la gente”
  • page 605: “Y) Yaya (pc) letra de la eſcritura tagala .|. yaya yaon .|. ᜌ . aba ſuſulat aco nang yaya ? quieres q̃ eſcriua vna .y. de Indio? [yba din] ang yaya dito nang ſa Manila, vna y es [la de] aqui u otra đ M.”

• IPA^(key): [ˈja.ja]

yaya

1. mother

   Synonym: hera

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Ottoman Turkish یایا (yaya), from Old Turkic [script needed] (yadag). Cognate with Kazakh жаяу (jaäu) and Azerbaijani yayaq.

• IPA^(key): [jaja]

• Audio

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yaya (definite accusative yayayı, plural yayalar)

1. pedestrian; someone walking, instead of using a vehicle
2. (military, historical) foot soldier

• yayan

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Together with the polite baba (“father”), likely borrowed from Ternate yaya (“mother”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈja.ja/

yaya

1. mother

The term yaya is used for addressing one's mother, whereas the terms mama and mamu are used for referring to a mother.

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics