aba

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة‎ (ʿabāʾa). Compare abaya.

• abba

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbɑ/

aba (countable and uncountable, plural abas)

1. A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
2. A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. [First attested in the early 19^th century.][1]
   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 110:

     'A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.'

   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:

     Here Nessim would sit night after night in the winter, dressed in his old rust-coloured abba, staring gravely at Betelgeuse, or hovering over books of calculations for all the world like a medieval soothsayer.

3. 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.

• abaya

• From the name of its creator, the French explorer A. T. d' Abbadie.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.bə/

aba (plural abas)

1. An altazimuth used for astronomy on either land or water.

aba (plural abas)

1. The electric fish Gymnarchus niloticus (the frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa.

• 1889 Century Dictionary, volume 1 page 3

• AAB, BAA, aab, baa

• Tone: LH[1]

aba (plural aba)

1. seed(s)[2][1]
2. fruit[2][1]

• wawa aba

aba

1. (Western Arawak) one.

• ábą

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈbɑ/
• Hyphenation: a‧ba

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“father”).

aba (definite accusative abanı, plural abalar)

1. (dialectal, Gadabay, Quba, Ordubad, Zangilan) father

   Synonym: ata

From Common Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”).

aba (definite accusative abanı, plural abalar)

1. (dialectal, Jabrayil, Qakh, Shamkir, Tabriz) mother

   Synonym: ana

2. (dialectal) elder sister
3. (dialectal) elder sister-in-law

• Axundov A. A., Kazımov Q. Ş., Behbudov S. M., editors (2007), “aba I”, in Azərbaycan dilinin dialektoloji lüğəti [Dialectological Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language] (in Azerbaijani), Baku: Şərq-Qərb, →ISBN, page 11a
• Axundov A. A., Kazımov Q. Ş., Behbudov S. M., editors (2007), “aba II”, in Azərbaycan dilinin dialektoloji lüğəti [Dialectological Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language] (in Azerbaijani), Baku: Şərq-Qərb, →ISBN, page 11a
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*apa-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*appa-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

aba f

1. fish

• “aba” in Gordon Koop, Lois Koop, Dicionário deni-português, Associação Internacional de Lingüística - SIL Brasil, 1985.

aba

1. taro

aba

1. mat

Uncertain. Cognate with Portuguese aba, Spanish álabe, French aube, Romanian aripă.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈaβa̝/

aba f (plural abas)

1. slope, hillside

   Synonyms: faldra, pé

2. apron, smock; folds of a shirt or dress

   Synonym: faldra

3. (anatomy) lap

   Synonym: colo

4. brim of a hat
5. rim

• abada
• abeaca
• abeiro

• “aba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “aba” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “aba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “aba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

aba

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌱𐌰

abá

1. alas, gosh, well, whew
2. wow

abâ

1. (questioning) really
2. (questioning) ah, oh

abá

1. (anatomy) shoulder blade

abá

1. To carry on one's back

From Malay aba, from Arabic أب‎, from Proto-Semitic *ʾab-.

aba (Jawi spelling اب, plural aba-aba)

1. father (male parent)

aba

1. Only used in ar aba

aba m sg

1. genitive singular of ab

• "aba" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “aba” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

aba

1. (Banawá) fish

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Shortened from an older Baltic form *arba, which is preserved in Lithuanian as arba (the meaning differs just slightly).

aba

1. alias, AKA, or

aba

1. (archaic) just
2. (archaic) just now

• nupat
• tikko
• patlaban

aba

1. (archaic) or

• vai

aba

1. (archaic) both

• abi

aba m (4th declension, irregular gender, dative singular)

1. (Christianity, Judaism) Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.

• abba

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba.

aba

1. father

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /abə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /aba/
• Rhymes: -abə, -bə, -ə

From Proto-Malayic *aba, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aba, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aba, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *aba, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba.

• abah
• bah
• ابه‎
• اب‎
• به‎

aba (Jawi spelling اب)

1. Alternative form of abah

Borrowed from Arabic أبٌ‎, from Proto-Semitic *ʾab-.

• اب‎

aba (Jawi spelling اب, plural aba-aba)

1. father (male parent)

Shortened form of haba.

• haba
• هاب‎
• اب‎

aba (Jawi spelling اب)

1. Alternative form of haba

Borrowed from English harbor.

• MED phonemes: {habah}
• IPA^(key): /ɰapˠaɰ/, [ɑ̯ɑbˠɑɑ̯]

aba

1. a harbor.
2. an anchorage.
3. a port.

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Borrowed from Spanish haba (“bean; bump, nodule; equine palatitis”), from Latin faba (“bean”).

• IPA^(key): /ǎβà/

ǎba

1. equine palatitis

• ndodi

• Hernández Cruz, Luis; Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)‎ (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 3

aba

1. genitive singular of ab

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaβ̞a/

aba

1. hair

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaβ̞a/, /ˈtaβ̞a/

aba

1. village, especially a typical Brazilian indigenous village.

• The stem aba could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form taba was used whenever the noun was not possessed.

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

From Latin alapa (“slap, smack”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.βɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ba/
• Hyphenation: a‧ba
• Rhymes: -aba

aba f (plural abas)

1. brim (of a hat)

   a aba do chapéu

   the brim of the hat

2. flap (hinged leaf of furniture)
3. bank (of a river)
4. (computing) tab (navigational widget in a GUI)

• (bank): margem

• abar
• desabar

• aba in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

• IPA^(key): /aˈba/

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish عبا‎ (abâ) (Turkish aba), from Arabic عَبَاءَة‎ (ʿabāʾa).

aba

1. Thick wool-fabric, usually white, from which country-style clothing is often made.

• dimie

• pănură
• țesătură

aba

1. An interjection that expresses wonder or draws attention to something.

• aba in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• ab

From Old Irish ap, abb, from Latin abbās, from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), from Aramaic אבא‎ (’abbā, “father”).

aba m (genitive singular aba, plural abachan)

1. (Christianity) abbot

   An nì a nì an dara h-aba subhach, nì e dubhach an t-aba eile.

   What makes the one abbot glad makes the other abbot sad.

• mac-an-aba

• abaid

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish عبا‎ (abâ) (Turkish aba), from Arabic عَبَاءَة‎ (ʿabāʾa).

aba f (Cyrillic spelling аба)

1. (regional) aba

• “aba” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Nguni [Term?], from Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

-ába

1. (transitive) to share
2. (transitive) to distribute

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /aˈbaʔ/

abâ

1. poor, indigent

   Synonyms: dukha, maralita, hirap, mahirap

   Tulungan natin ang mga abang pamilya.

   Let's help the poor families.

2. humble; ordinary

   Synonyms: karaniwan, pangkaraniwan

3. oppressed, abused

   Synonyms: api, inapi, api-apihan

4. unfortunate

   Synonym: kaawa-awa

5. mean, despicable

   Synonym: hamak

• IPA^(key): /aˈba/

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abá

1. an exclamation of surprise, wonder, or admiration; wow

   Aba! Bakit ngayon mo lang sinabi?

   Hey! How come you only said it now?

   Aba! Ikaw ang bahala.

   Well! Do as you please.

   Aba oo.

   But of course.

2. hail!

   Aba Ginoong Maria!

   Hail Mary!; Ave Maria!

• naku

abá

1. act of greeting or calling the attention of someone
2. reminder or call of attention for someone about something

• (act of greeting): bati, pagbati
• (reminder): banggit, ino, pagbanggit, pag-ino

aba

1. (dialectal) father

• IPA^(key): /aba/

From Proto-Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”).

aba (definite accusative abayı, plural abalar)

1. (dialectal) elder sister
2. (dialectal) mother

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة‎ (ʿabāʾa).

aba (definite accusative abayı, plural abalar)

1. felt (a non-woven cloth that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing woollen fibres)

• aba güreşi

Borrowed from Arabic آباء‎ (ʾābāʾ).

• IPA^(key): /ɑːbɑː/

aba

1. (archaic) fathers
2. (archaic) ancestors, forefathers
3. (archaic) Christian monks

aba

1. dative singular of ab

• aba in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

From Proto-Nguni [Term?], from Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

-aba

1. (transitive) to share
2. (transitive) to distribute

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Nguni [Term?], from Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

-aba

1. (transitive) to divide, to apportion, to distribute
2. (transitive) to share

• -abela (applicative)
• -abisa (causative)
• -abisisa (intensive)
• -abeka (neuter-passive)
• -abiwa (passive)
• -abana (reciprocal)
• umabi
• umabo

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “aɓa”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “aɓa (6.3)”