aba
/əˈbɑ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.32 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
3
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "'A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.'"
- "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."
- "Holonym: hijab"
- "The main Tibetan areas in Sichuan are now designated as Aba (Ngawa) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Muli Tibetan Autonomous County."
- "The notice, issued by provincial public security authorities, said foreigners were prohibited from entering the Tibetan populated prefecture of Ganzi and several counties in neighboring Aba prefecture."
- "Last week, two Tibetan teenagers set themselves on fire in a double self-immolation in Aba prefecture, Tibet rights advocacy groups said. Seventeen-year-old Richen and his childhood friend Sonam Dargye, 18, were among the youngest to have died in the fiery protests."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: عَبَاءَة, ع ب و, -, 阿壩, Ἄβα
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈbɑ/
- British English: /əˈbɑː/