យាយ

Khmer

Pronunciation
Orthographic and Phonemic យាយ
yāy
WT romanisation yiəy
(standard) IPA(key) /jiəj/

Noun

យាយ • (yiəy)

  1. grandmother
Synonyms
  • ដូន (doun)
  • អយ្យកា (ʾɑɑyyɔɔkaa)

Etymology 2

From Khmer និយាយ។

Verb

យាយ • (yiəy) (abstract noun ការយាយ)

  1. (slang) to speak, say, talk, relate, tell
  2. (slang) to narrate
  3. (slang) to discuss, talk over
  4. (slang) to be involved (with), get involved (with)

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • yāya (Latin script)
  • 𑀬𑀸𑀬 (Brahmi script)
  • याय (Devanagari script)
  • যায (Bengali script)
  • යාය (Sinhalese script)
  • ယာယ (Burmese script)
  • ยาย or ยายะ (Thai script)
  • ᨿᩣᨿ (Tai Tham script)
  • ຢາຢ or ຢາຢະ (Lao script)

Pronoun

យាយ

  1. Khmer script form of yāya, which is genitive, dative, ablative, instrumental, and locative singular of យា (yā, “who”)
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