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ya

pron
/jə//jɑː//ˈjɑː/UK/jɑ/

Etymology

From Malay ya, from Dutch ja (and ultimately Proto-Germanic *ja). Reinforced by informal variants of yes in English (e.g., yeah). Doublet of yes.

  1. derived from *ja✻
  2. derived from ja
  3. borrowed from ya

Definitions

  1. Nonstandard spelling of you.

    • But you don't really care for music, do ya?

  2. Yeah

    Yeah; yes.

  3. yea

    yea; yes

    • 'Ya, wilt thou!' said Wallace, 'then tak thee that, […]'
    • Ya, auld man, ye ken fine ye wad like me.
    • Ya, bur 'ee did, […]
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Go. (Spoken to horses and cattle.)

    2. Nonstandard spelling of your.

    3. A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet

      A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet: Я, я.

    4. Yes, yeah (used to express affirmation)

    5. Used to form a confirmation-seeking tag question, expecting an affirmative response.

      • What about yourself Mr Chee, never look a day older, you'll see the rest of us six feet under… Really you look very well. I heard you went for new treatment in Switzerland ya?…

    6. Initialism of young adult

    7. Initialism of youth authority.

    8. A surname from Tamil.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ya. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA