Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.

    a fabric woven from goat hair and camel hair

  2. (countable, uncountable)A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs.

    a loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth; worn by Arabs

  3. (countable, uncountable)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.

  4. (countable, uncountable)Such a garment that is specific to women.

    Holonym: hijab

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

  6. An electric fish of species Gymnarchus niloticus (frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa.

    Großnilhecht

Examples

1 sentences
  1. It's Ṛabaḥ. He's back.

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Translations

2 languages
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Origin

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa). Compare abaya. * From the name of its creator, th

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa). Compare abaya.

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

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Forms

plural: abas
Singularaba
Pluralabas

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
all senses:abaya

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
aba — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto