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aba¹
- /əˈbɑː/ UK
- /əˈbɑ/ US
Rhymes with -ɑː
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa). Compare abaya.
noun abas · abba
- A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
- A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. 'A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.'
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An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert. The illustration shows such an aba, made of two breadths of stuff sewed together to make an oblong about four by nine feet.
Similar: abaya
- Such a garment that is specific to women. Holonym: hijab
aba²
- /ˈæ.bə/ US
Rhymes with -æbə
Where it comes from
* From the name of its creator, the French explorer A. T. d' Abbadie.
noun abas
- An altazimuth used for astronomy on either land or water.
aba³
noun abas
- An electric fish of species Gymnarchus niloticus (frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa.
Aba⁴
- /ɑˈbɑ/
proper noun
- The largest city in Abia State, Nigeria.
Aba⁵
- /ˈɑˈbɑ/
Where it comes from
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 阿壩 /阿坝 (Ābà).
proper noun Apa
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Synonym of Ngawa: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
The main Tibetan areas in Sichuan are now designated as Aba (Ngawa) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Muli Tibetan Autonomous County.
Similar: Ngawa
Aba⁶
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek Ἄβα (Ába).
proper noun
- a Thracian naiad nymph
ABA⁷
proper noun
- Initialism of American Basketball Association
- Initialism of Amateur Boxing Association
- Initialism of American Bar Association The rare outburst comes as the ABA is under continued attack from conservatives who question its methodology and argue that the group that has rated potential nominees for decades is biased against conservatives.
- Initialism of American Booksellers Association
- Initialism of American Beverage Association Energy drink manufacturers will not sell or market their energy drink products in K-12 schools, in accordance with the industry’s School Beverage Guidelines and in the ABA statement regarding the Sale of Energy Drinks in Schools.
noun
- Initialism of applied behavior analysis It is a direct echo of a notorious claim made by the psychologist credited with inventing applied behavior analysis (ABA), Ole Ivar Lovaas: in a 1987 article, he wrote that nearly half the children treated with his version of ABA became, according to their teachers, “indistinguishable from their nor
- Initialism of abscisic acid, a plant hormone. Rudnicki and colleagues found ABA to increase with ripening of strawberry fruits (16) and of pears (17) and during the development of apple fruits (18).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: baa, father, association, epa, abba, iba, abu, ali, ebi, ente, ija, ldi, bergamot, camlet, alpaca, armozeen
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noun fish
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