# aba
## Translingual
### Symbol

aba
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Abé.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Abé terms

## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa). Compare abaya.

#### Alternative forms

* abba

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈbɑː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /əˈbɑ/
* Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑː, (General American) -ɑ

#### Noun

aba (countable and uncountable, plural abas)
* A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
* A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
** 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.
* 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.
* Such a garment that is specific to women.
    Holonym: hijab
    Coordinate terms: burka, chador, chadri, niqab

##### Synonyms

* (all senses): abaya

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈæ.bə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æbə

#### Noun

aba (plural abas)
* An altazimuth used for astronomy on either land or water.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

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

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aba”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.

### Further reading

* Aba in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
* Century Dictionary, volume 1, 1889, page 3

### Anagrams

* AAB, BAA, baa

## Akan
### Pronunciation

* Tone: LH

### Noun

aba (plural aba)
* seed(s)
* fruit

#### Derived terms

* wawa aba

### References

* 1 2 3 Kotey, Paul A. (1998). Twi-English/English-Twi Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
* 1 2 Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) “aba”, in A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)‎, Basel, page 2

## Albanian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aˈba]

### Noun

aba f (plural aba, definite abaja, definite plural abat)
* (old) thin felt (usually white or gray)

### Further reading

* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980

## Apatani
### Etymology

Probably cognate with Tibetan ཨ་ཕ (a pha), Garo apa.

### Noun

aba
* father

### References

* P. T. Abraham, Apatani-English-Hindi Dictionary (1987)

## Azerbaijani
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑˈbɑ/
* Audio (Baku):(file)
* Hyphenation: a‧ba

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *apa (“father”).

#### Noun

aba (definite accusative abanı, plural abalar)
* (Gadabay, Quba, Ordubad, Zangilan) father
    Synonym: ata

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *apa (“mother, elder sister, aunt”).

#### Noun

aba (definite accusative abanı, plural abalar)
* (Jabrayil, Qakh, Shamkir, Tabriz) mother
    Synonym: ana
* (dialectal) elder sister
* (dialectal) elder sister-in-law

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

Derived from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa).

#### Noun

aba (definite accusative abanı, plural abalar)
* aba

##### Declension
### References

* 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

## Basque
### Etymology

Coined by Basque nationalist, writer and politician Sabino Arana in the 19th century, from a misinterpretation of the kinship suffix -ba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aba/ [a.β̞a]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aba, -a
* Hyphenation: a‧ba

### Noun

aba anim
* (rare) father
    Synonym: aita

#### Derived terms

* aberri (“fatherland”) (see there for further derivations)

### Further reading

* “aba”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Chibcha
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaba/

### Noun

aba
* maize
* corncob
* maize crop

### References

* Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

## Corsican
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaba/

### Noun

aba f (plural abe)
* Alternative form of apa

#### References

* https://infcor.adecec.net/

## Dení
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Arawa *aba-.

### Noun

aba f
* fish

### References

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

## Dongxiang
### Pronunciation 1

* IPA: /ɑˈpɑ/

#### Noun

aba
* father

### Pronunciation 2

* IPA: /ˈɑpɑ/

#### Noun

aba
* paternal uncle (father's younger brother)

## Dupaningan Agta
### Noun

aba
* taro

## Ewe
### Noun

aba
* mat
* bed

### References

* 1 2 Fiagã, Kwasi (1976). Grammaire eʋe: Eʋegbe ŋutinunya. Lomé: Institut national de la recherche scientifique, p. 101.

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaba/ [ˈa.β̞ɐ]
* Rhymes: -aba
* Hyphenation: a‧ba

### Noun

aba f (plural abas)
* slope, hillside
    Synonyms: faldra, pé
* apron, smock; folds of a shirt or dress
    Synonym: faldra
* (anatomy) lap
    Synonym: colo
* brim of a hat
* rim
    Synonym: bordo

#### Derived terms

* abada
* abeaca
* abeiro

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “aba”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “álabe”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Gothic
### Romanization

aba
* Romanization of 𐌰𐌱𐌰

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French à bas.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aba/

### Interjection

aba
* down with...!
    Aba lenjistis!Down with injustice!

### References

* Albert Valdman, Iskra Iskrova, editors, compiled by Albert Valdman (2007), Haitian Creole-English Bilingual Dictionary‎, Bloomington: Indiana University Creole Institute, →ISBN, page 1

## Hanunoo
### Etymology 1

From Greater Central Philippine *habaʔ (“long (object)”). Compare Ilocano akaba, Kapampangan kaba / aba, Tagalog haba, Bikol Central laba, Aklanon haba, Hiligaynon laba, and Tausug haba'.

#### Alternative forms

* aba'

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʔaba/ [ˈʔa.ba], /ˈʔabaʔ/ [ˈʔa.bɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -aba, -abaʔ
* Syllabification: a‧ba

#### Noun

aba or abà (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜪ)
* length (distance along the longest dimension)

##### Derived terms

* aba-aba

#### Adjective

aba or abà (plural araba, Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜪ)
* long (having much distance from one point to another)

##### Derived terms

* araba-araba

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *abá. Compare Tagalog aba.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaˈba/ [ʔaˈba]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: a‧ba

#### Interjection

abá (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜪ)
* an exclamation of surprise, admiration, wonder
    Synonym: aba-aba

##### Usage notes

* The word aba-aba is more used.

##### Derived terms

* aba-aba

##### See also

* aba
* abaw
* ago
* agod

### Further reading

* Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 17

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *abá.

#### Interjection

abá
* alas, gosh, well, whew
* wow

#### Interjection

abâ
* (questioning) really
* (questioning) ah, oh

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

abá
* (anatomy) shoulder blade

#### Verb

abá
* to carry on one's back

## Iban
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abaʔ/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

aba
* father
    Aba aku ― My father

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

aba
* smell

### Etymology 3
#### Preposition

aba
* with; and
    Jaba aba Jalir ― Jaba and Jalir
* at; in
    Aba bilik iya ― He's in the room

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈaba/ [ˈa.ba]
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: a‧ba

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay aba, from Proto-Malayic *aba, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba.

#### Alternative forms

* abah

#### Noun

aba
* Synonym of ayah (“father”)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦧ (aba, “sign, sound; order, command; to order, command; spoken word; to say, to speak”).

#### Noun

aba
* signals in the form of knocking sounds on walls and so on which are usually heard before the death of a family member

##### Related terms

* aba-aba
* abah

### Further reading

* “aba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Irish
### Noun

aba
* Only used in ar aba

### Noun

aba m sg
* genitive singular of ab

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aba”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aba”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

## Jamamadí
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Arawa *aba-.

### Noun

aba
* (Banawá) fish

### References

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

## Japanese
### Romanization

aba
* Rōmaji transcription of あば

## Javanese
### Romanization

aba
* Romanization of ꦲꦧ

## Kankanaey
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Kankanaey)
** IPA: /ˈʔaba/ [ˈʔaː.bʌ] (“banana skin”)
*** Rhymes: -aba
** IPA: /ʔaˈba/ [ʔʌˈba] (“act of carrying on the back”)
*** Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: a‧ba

### Noun

ába
* banana skin

#### Derived terms

* aba idus
* inabaan
* pinangaba

### Noun

abá
* act of carrying on the back, usually a child

#### Derived terms

* abaen

### References

* Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “aba”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎, Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 1

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German ebbe (“tide”). Compare English ebb and Dutch eb.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.ba/
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: a‧ba

### Noun

aba f
* (regional, Hel Peninsula) ebb, the receding movement of the tide
* (regional, Hel Peninsula) ebb tide
* (regional, Hel Peninsula) tide, any periodic change in sea level

#### Derived terms

* abòwac impf

### References

* ↑ Wiesław Boryś, Hanna Popowska-Taborska (1994) “aba”, in Słownik etymologiczny Kaszubszczyzny, volume 1, →ISBN, page 69

### Further reading

* Sychta, Bernard (1967) “aba”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 1
* Jan Trepczyk (1994) “fala”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “fala”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

## Latgalian
### Etymology

Cognate with Latvian aba and Lithuanian aba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈaba]
* Hyphenation: a‧ba

### Conjunction

aba
* (archaic) or

### References

* Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 74

## Latvian
### Adverb

aba
* (archaic) just
* (archaic) just now

#### Synonyms

* nupat
* tikko
* patlaban

### Conjunction

aba
* (archaic) or

#### Synonyms

* vai

### Adjective

aba
* (archaic) both

#### Synonyms

* abi

### Noun

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

#### Synonyms

* abba

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

Cognate with Latvian and Latgalian aba, as well as modern Lithuanian arba.

### Conjunction

aba
* or (archaic)

## Lokono
### Numeral

aba
* (Western Lokono) one.

#### Synonyms

* ábą

## Malagasy
### Etymology

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

### Noun

aba
* (dialectal) father

### Further reading

* aba in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* (Etymology 1, 2, and 5)
** (Baku, Johor-Riau) IPA: [a.ba]
*** Audio (Malaysia):(file)
* (Etymology 3)
** (Johor-Riau) IPA: [a.bə]
*** Audio (Malaysia):(file)
** (Baku) IPA: [a.ba]
*** Audio (Malaysia):(file)
* Rhymes: -bə, -ə, -ba, -a
* Hyphenation: a‧ba
* (Etymology 4)
** (Johor-Riau) IPA: [a.bə da.bə]
*** Audio (Malaysia):(file)
** (Baku) IPA: [a.ba da.ba]
*** Audio (Malaysia):(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

aba (Jawi spelling اب)
* Alternative form of abah.

##### Descendants

* Indonesian: aba

### Etymology 2

From Arabic أَب (ʔab).

#### Noun

aba (Jawi spelling اب)
* A father (male parent).

### Etymology 3

Clipping of haba.

#### Noun

aba (Jawi spelling اب)
* Alternative form of haba.

### Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

aba-daba (Jawi spelling اب-داب)
* A germ.

### Etymology 5

Borrowed from Indonesian aba, from Javanese ꦲꦧ (aba).

#### Interjection

aba (Jawi spelling اب, also used in the form aba-aba)
* (Indonesia) Command words used in military exercises.

### Further reading

* “aba” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Mansaka
### Etymology

Akin to Tagalog haba.

### Adjective

aba
* long

## Marshallese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English harbor.

### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [ɑbˠɑ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /ɰæpˠæɰ/
* Bender phonemes: {habah}

### Noun

aba
* a harbor.
* an anchorage.
* a port.

### Further reading

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Mezquital Otomi
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǎβa/

### Noun

ǎba
* equine palatitis

#### Synonyms

* ndodi

### References

* 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

## Middle Irish
### Noun

aba
* genitive singular of ab

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Old Tupi
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *rap, from Proto-Mawé-Guaraní *t͡sap, from Proto-Tupian *jap.
Cognate with Sateré-Mawé sap, Guaraní ague.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.β̞a/
* Rhymes: -aβa
* Hyphenation: a‧ba

### Noun

aba (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute taba, R1 raba, R2 saba)
* body hair
* fur (hairy coat of various mammal species)
* contour feather; plumage
    pykasuabapigeon feathers
* wool
* woolen fabric

#### Usage notes

* When talking about birds, aba referred only to the body feathers; the flight feathers were called pepó.

#### Derived terms

* 'aba
* agûera
* amongy
* apopora
* aso'îaba
* aúra
* aûana
* gûaraabuku
* gûarasyaba
* pepoata'yba
* pyaba
* samongy
* tu'ĩatĩ'yba
* îandûaba
* îatyrãbebé

### References

* ↑ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 569

### Further reading

* Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎ (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “aba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 5, columns 1–2

## Pangasinan
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: a‧ba
* IPA: /aˈba/, [aˈba]
* Rhymes: -a

### Noun

abá
* taro

#### Related terms

* aba-aba
Part or all of this Pangasinan entry has been imported from the 1865 edition of Diccionario pangasinan-español. The imported definitions may be significantly outdated, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Latin alapa (“slap, smack”). Cognate with Galician aba.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.bɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.bɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.ba/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈa.bɐ/ [ˈa.βɐ]
* Audio (Brazil):(file)
* Rhymes: -abɐ
* Hyphenation: a‧ba

#### Noun

aba f (plural abas)
* brim (of a hat)
    a aba do chapéuthe brim of the hat
* flap (hinged leaf of furniture)
* bank (of a river)
    Synonym: margem
* (computing) tab (navigational widget in a GUI)

##### Derived terms

* abar
* desabar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

aba
* inflection of abar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “aba” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “aba”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈba/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: a‧bá

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

aba f (plural abale)
* (uncountable) thick woolen baize (usually white), from which country clothing is often made
    Synonyms: dimie, pănură
* (countable) a garment made of the above

##### Declension
#### See also

* țesătură

### Etymology 2
#### Interjection

aba
* expresses wonder or draws attention to something

### Further reading

* aba in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Salar
### Etymology

Borrowed from Amdo Tibetan ཨ་ཕ (a pha, “father”).

### Pronunciation

* (Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA: /ɑbɑ/

### Noun

aba
* father

### References

* Potanin, G.N. (1893) “aba”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian)
* Yanchuk, Mikola Andriyovich (1893) Этнографическое ОбозрѢніе: Императорскаго Общества Любителей Естествознанія, Антропологіи и Этнографіи [Ethnographical Review: Imperial Society of Lovers of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography]‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Publication of the Ethnographic Department, page 32
* Rockhill, William Woodville (1894) Diary of a journey through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, page 374
* Kakuk, S. (1962) “aba”, in “Un Vocabulaire Salar”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎, volume 14, number 2, Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN, pages 173-196
* Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “aba”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 279
* 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “aba”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎, Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 126
* Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “aba”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 31
* Dwyer, Arienne M. (2007) “aba”, in Salar: A Study in Inner Asian Language Contact Processes: Part I: Phonology‎, 1st edition, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 108
* Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “aba”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 1
* 马伟 [Ma Wei], 朝克 [Chao Ke] (2014) “aba”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader]‎, 1st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 [Social Science Literature Press], →ISBN, page 109

## Sardinian
### Etymology 1

From Latin ava, feminine of avus.

#### Noun

aba f (plural abas)
* grandmother

### Etymology 2

From Latin ala.

#### Alternative forms

* ala

#### Noun

aba f (plural abas)
* wing

## Sassarese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈab(b)a/

### Noun

aba f (plural abi)
* Alternative form of abi (“bee”)

### References

* Ugo Solinas (2016) “àbi”, in Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 1, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 20
* Giosue Muzzo (1981) “àba”, in Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 25

## Scottish Gaelic
### Alternative forms

* ab

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈapə/
* Hyphenation: a‧ba

### Noun

aba m (genitive singular aba, plural abachan)
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* mac-an-aba

#### Related terms

* abaid

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “aba”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
* Colin Mark (2003) “aba”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 5

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

aba f (Cyrillic spelling аба)
* (regional) aba

### Further reading

* “aba”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈaba]

### Noun

aba f (genitive singular aby, declension pattern of žena)
* aba, abaya
    Synonym: abája

### References

* “aba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

### Verb

-aba
* to divide, to distribute

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Either inherited from Latin apage (“go away”), from Ancient Greek άπαγε (ápage), or alternatively borrowed from Arabic اِبْعَد (ibʕad, dialectally also abʕad), imperative of بَعِدَ (baʕida, “to go away”). As both words have the same meaning and could both easily have yielded Spanish aba, it is hardly possible to decide.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaba/ [ˈa.β̞a]
* Homophone: haba

### Interjection

¡aba!
* caution!, watch out!

### References

* ↑ Corriente, Federico (2019 March 11) “Boletín de información lingüística de la Real Academia Española”, in NOTAS A LOS ARABISMOS Y OTROS «EXOTISMOS» EN DLE 2014‎ (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy, archived from the original on 17 December 2020

### Further reading

* “aba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Sumerian
### Romanization

aba
* Romanization of 𒀊 (aba)

## Swazi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

### Verb

-ába
* (transitive) to share
* (transitive) to distribute

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ʔaˈbaʔ/ [ʔɐˈbaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: a‧ba

#### Adjective

abâ (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ)
* poor, indigent
    Synonyms: dukha, maralita, hirap, mahirap
    Tulungan natin ang mga abang pamilya.Let's help the poor families.
* humble; ordinary
    Synonyms: karaniwan, pangkaraniwan
* oppressed, abused
    Synonyms: api, inapi, api-apihan
* unfortunate
    Synonym: kaawa-awa
* mean, despicable
    Synonym: hamak

##### Derived terms

* abain
* abang-aba
* kaaba-aba
* kaabaan
* magpakaaba
* pagkaaba
* pagpapakaaba
* sa aba
* sa aba ko
* sa aba mo

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *abá.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ʔaˈba/ [ʔɐˈba]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: a‧ba

#### Interjection

abá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ)
* an exclamation of surprise, wonder, or admiration; wow
    Synonyms: naku, (Rizal) adyaw
    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.

##### Alternative forms

* ba

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish ave, from Latin avē (“hello, hail”). The senses “calling of attention” could possibly be borrowed from Spanish aba (“watch out”), either from Latin apage (“go away”), from Ancient Greek άπαγε (ápage), or from Arabic اِبْعَد.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ʔaˈba/ [ʔɐˈba]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: a‧ba

#### Interjection

abá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ)
* hail!
    Aba Ginoong Maria!Hail Mary!; Ave Maria!

##### Derived terms

* Aba Ginoong Maria

#### Noun

abá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ)
* act of greeting or calling the attention of someone
    Synonyms: bati, pagbati
* reminder or call of attention for someone about something
    Synonyms: banggit, ino, pagbanggit, pag-ino

##### Derived terms

* abahin

### Further reading

* “aba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*abá”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
* Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 1

### Anagrams

* aab

## Tatar
### Noun

aba
* Latin spelling of аба (aba)

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈa.ba]

### Noun

aba
* father
    Synonym: baba

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑbɑ/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

aba (definite accusative abayı, plural abalar)
* (dialectal) elder sister
* (dialectal) mother

### Etymology 2

From Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa).

#### Noun

aba (definite accusative abayı, plural abalar)
* felt (a non-woven cloth that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing woollen fibres)

##### Derived terms

* aba güreşi

### Etymology 3

From Ottoman Turkish آبا (aba), from Arabic آباء (ʔābāʔ).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑːbɑː/

#### Noun

aba
* (archaic) fathers
* (archaic) ancestors, forefathers
* (archaic) Christian monks

##### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
aba
abalar
definite accusative
abayı
abaları
dative
abaya
abalara
locative
abada
abalarda
ablative
abadan
abalardan
genitive
abanın
abaların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
abam
abalarım
2nd singular
aban
abaların
3rd singular
abası
abaları
1st plural
abamız
abalarımız
2nd plural
abanız
abalarınız
3rd plural
abaları
abaları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
abamı
abalarımı
2nd singular
abanı
abalarını
3rd singular
abasını
abalarını
1st plural
abamızı
abalarımızı
2nd plural
abanızı
abalarınızı
3rd plural
abalarını
abalarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
abama
abalarıma
2nd singular
abana
abalarına
3rd singular
abasına
abalarına
1st plural
abamıza
abalarımıza
2nd plural
abanıza
abalarınıza
3rd plural
abalarına
abalarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
abamda
abalarımda
2nd singular
abanda
abalarında
3rd singular
abasında
abalarında
1st plural
abamızda
abalarımızda
2nd plural
abanızda
abalarınızda
3rd plural
abalarında
abalarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
abamdan
abalarımdan
2nd singular
abandan
abalarından
3rd singular
abasından
abalarından
1st plural
abamızdan
abalarımızdan
2nd plural
abanızdan
abalarınızdan
3rd plural
abalarından
abalarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
abamın
abalarımın
2nd singular
abanın
abalarının
3rd singular
abasının
abalarının
1st plural
abamızın
abalarımızın
2nd plural
abanızın
abalarınızın
3rd plural
abalarının
abalarının :

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

aba
* dative singular of ab

### Further reading

* “aba”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

## Venetan
### Noun

aba f (plural abe) (Belluno)
* Alternative form of acua

### References

* “aba”, in el Galepin – www.elgalepin.com

## Weyewa
### Noun

aba
* (Loli) fat
* (Loli) mouth

### References

* Lobu Ori, S,Pd, M.Pd (2010) “aba”, in Kamus Bahasa Lolina [Dictionary of the Loli Language] (in Indonesian), Waikabubak: Kepala Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Barat

## Wutunhua
### Etymology

From Mandarin 阿爸 (ābà).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [apa]

### Noun

aba
* father
    Synonym: ha
    Coordinate terms: ana, ma

### References

* Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

## Xhosa
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

#### Verb

-aba
* (transitive) to share
* (transitive) to distribute

##### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [âːɓa]

#### Pronoun

âba
* these; class 2 proximal demonstrative.

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /à.bá/

#### Noun

àbá
* idea, suggestion

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ā.bà/

#### Noun

abà
* barn, village
    Synonym: ahéré
    Synonym: abúlé

### Etymology 3

From à- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ ba (“to brood, to incubate”)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /à.bā/

#### Noun

àba
* incubation

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ā.bá/

#### Noun

abá
* type of mat
    Synonym: ẹní

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /à.bá/

#### Noun

àbá
* (Ekiti) father
    Synonyms: bàbá, aba
    Antonyms: iye, eye
* (Ekiti) a term of familiarity or respect for an older man or male relative
    Synonyms: bàbá, aba

##### Derived terms

* ababa (“grandfather, paternal grandfather”)
* abaye (“grandfather, maternal grandfather”)

## Zaghawa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaba/

### Noun

aba
* father
* paternal uncle (among the wegi clan); maternal uncle (sometimes)

#### Usage notes

* Sense 2 refers to blood relations only
* Most often used as a form of address, rather than a noun proper.

### See also

* kisir

### References

* Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

## Zazaki
### Noun

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

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

### Verb

-aba
* (transitive) to divide, to apportion, to distribute
* (transitive) to share

#### Derived terms

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

### References

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