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

Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, from dialectal Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), yaup, yalp (“to yap, yelp”), from Middle English ȝælpen, variant of yelpen (“to yelp”). More at yelp.

• IPA^(key): /jæp/

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• Rhymes: -æp

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1. (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
2. (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.”

3. (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.

   Shut your yap!

4. (countable, Tyneside) A badly behaved child; a brat.

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN

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1. (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
2. (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.

   You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.

3. (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
   • 2000, M.O.P., Ante Up:

     Ante up! Yap that fool!

• APY, Pay, pay, pya

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1. tree; wood

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

• English: yaupon

< Yap

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑp/, [ˈjɑ̝p]

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

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• IPA^(key): /jap/

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1. to stand

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

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

• IPA^(key): /jap/

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1. to die

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

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1. millet

   Synonym: lyekṣye

• ypiye (“pertaining to millet”)

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1. second-person singular imperative of yapmak