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aba.

A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.

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Meaning & usage

noun/əˈbɑː/Received-Pronunciation/əˈbɑ/General-American
  1. A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.

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

    countable · uncountable
  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.

    countable · uncountable
  4. Such a garment that is specific to women.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa). Compare abaya.

noun/ˈæ.bə/US
  1. An altazimuth used for astronomy on either land or water.

Where this word comes from

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

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

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