Meanings
Yakubian1
plural Yakubians
- alternativeAlternative form of Yacoubian
Lately, however, the younger Yakubian, known here as one of a firm of Armenian rag dealers, has appeared and is engaged in making advances to druggists for the local agency.
1893 July 1, Special Correspondent, “New York.”, in The Pharmaceutical Era, volume 10, number 1, D. O. Haynes & Co., page 202 more examples
MARRIED -- Mrs. Dikran Yakubian is the former Andrea Vitagliano, daughter of Mrs. Irene Vitagliano and Michael Vitagliano of Quincy. Her husband is the son of Mrs. Haykanus Yakubian of Watertown.
1975 January 16, Quincy Sun, volume 7, number 17, Quincy, Mass., page 7Unfortunately for the protesters, say the Friends of Yakoo, he is not an Indian at all, just a former student of Armenian descent named Allan Yakubian, clad in the national dress of Armenia — breechclout, leathers and tomahawk.
2007 May 11, Tom Henshaw, “Offensive nicknames”, in Cohasset Mariner, volume 28, number 19, page 13
Yakubian2
comparative more Yakubian · superlative most Yakubian
- Of or pertaining to Yakub.
Whatever form these enemies assume, it becomes the Yakubian “other” that must be overcome because of the extent to which it is anathema to the “cause” the visionary seeks to uphold.
1998, Michael Lieb, Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 2002 more examples
However, the introduction of fancy and fantasy into the equation, precisely at the juncture where concrete plans for overthrowing white rule would have been expected, strongly suggests an inability to conceive of black folk actually establishing a new and different social order, and it raises doubts as to the strength of conviction concerning other teachings of the Nation, such as the whole Yakubian account.
2005 March 21, Michael A. Gomez, Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 329In and Out of This World provides a set of concepts, frameworks, and primary sources that will excite scholars and students alike. Individual chapters, such Chapter 1 on Yakubian mythology, Chapter 4 on Malcolm X, or Chapter 6 on embodiment and classism would work well as readings in classes on Islam in America, modern Islam, and religious embodiment.
2023 August 8, Max Johnson Dugan, “In and Out of this World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam: Stephen C. Finley. 2022. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 264 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1877-3”, in Material Religion, volume 19, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 415–417 - InternetderogatoryethnicslurOf or pertaining to white people.
IRON MIKE... HEAR MY PLEA... SEND THAT YAKUBIAN DEVIL JAKE PAUL DIRECTLY INTO THE PITS OF HELL
2024 March 14, jan (@janitorsupreme), X (formerly Twitter), archived from the original on 21 Sep 20243 more examples
my question is. . .who's more detrimental to hip-hop----the north-faced goons that line up for eminem, the indie rockers that dig coflow, or the "post-label shapeshifting yakubian legions" (to paraphrase one of pedestrian's finer turns of phrase) who jock the fellowship?
1999 January 13, nfri...@haverford.edu, “Last night's Eminem show.”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 17 Apr 2022but yo, doesn't e have special significance to the nation, as they feel placing the "I" before "E" except after "C" preferences the (now known to be unintellible) internalist notion find intelligibility's primacy in the subjectivized I (a la) rather then the involved 5 senses (here signed in e, the fifth letter of the alphabet) unless that sense is sight, which is sufficiently detached for whitey's yakubian purposes.
1999 August 31, hypochristmutreefuzz, “A Conspiracy among White Rappers?”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 17 Apr 2022Have you noticed that we're livin' in a police state?! YT (for those that don't know after 13 years of DGT, say it faster, also standz for Yakubian Tribe) has deceitfully and silently made it so, right before our eyes!
2007, M'Bwebe Aja Ishangi, Analitikul Cogitationz
Origin
Yakubian · proper noun
- ArmenianՅակուբյան
- EnglishYakubian
From Armenian Յակուբյան (Yakubyan).
More words from Armenian
Full word history & related roots →Yakubian · adjective
From Yakub + -ian. In the mythology of the Nation of Islam, Yakub was an ancient Meccan scientist who created the white race with an evil nature. The word does not appear to have been used in any official NOI publication, suggesting that it is of external origin.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Yakubian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yakubian
“Yakubian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yakubian. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Yakubian,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yakubian.
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