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y-i-e-e-e.
n.  the war cry of a Native American, as in the comic book Donald Duck in Indian Country by Walt Disney.


y-i-i-i-i.
n.  the war cry of a Native American, as in the comic book Donald Duck in Indian Country by Walt Disney.


ya.
1.  interj.  a yell of triumph, as in The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman.


Ya.
1.  n.  a farm in the Jonkoping region of Sweden.


2.  n.  a populated place in Burkina Faso.


3.  n.  a populated place in Liberia.


4.  n.  a populated place in Zaire; a stream in Zaire.


5.  n.  a short form of the name of God, YHWH; see also Iao, Iaou, Iaue.

<At Elat Chayyim, God is referred to in prayers simply as “Ya,” intriguingly close to the Rastafarian Ja.  —Robert Eisenberg, Boychicks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground.>

6.  n.  a stream in Central African Republic.


7.  n.  a stream in the Faranah region of Guinea.


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