Aba

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /əˈbɑː/
• GenAm IPA: /əˈbÉ‘/

From Arabic عَبَاءَة. Compare abaya.

Alternative forms

• abba

Full definition of aba

Noun

1. A coarse, often striped, 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.

• 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.

Synonyms

• abaya

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /ˈæ.bÉ™/

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

Noun

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

Anagrams

• baa, BAA