aba

aba

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

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa). Compare abaya.

• abba

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbɑ/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑː, (General American) -ɑ

aba (countable and uncountable, plural abas)

1. A coarse, often striped, felted 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.][1]
   • 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.

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.
4. Such a garment that is specific to women.

   Coordinate term: burka

• abaya

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.bə/
• Rhymes: -æbə

aba (plural abas)

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

aba (plural abas)

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

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

• AAB, BAA, baa

• Tone: LH[1]

aba (plural aba)

1. seed(s)[2][1]
2. fruit[2][1]

• wawa aba

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

• IPA^(key): [aˈba]

aba f (plural aba, definite abaja, definite plural abat)

1. (old) thin felt (usually white or gray)

• “aba”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980

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

aba

1. father

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

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈbɑ/

• Audio (Baku)

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• Hyphenation: a‧ba

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

aba (definite accusative abanı, plural abalar)

1. (Gadabay, Quba, Ordubad, Zangilan) father

   Synonym: ata

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

aba (definite accusative abanı, plural abalar)

1. (Jabrayil, Qakh, Shamkir, Tabriz) mother

   Synonym: ana

2. (dialectal) elder sister
3. (dialectal) elder sister-in-law

Derived from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa).

aba (definite accusative abanı, plural abalar)

1. aba

• 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

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

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• IPA^(key): /aba/ [a.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Hyphenation: a‧ba

aba anim

1. (rare) father

   Synonym: aita

• “aba” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

• IPA^(key): /aβa/

aba

1. maize
2. corncob
3. maize crop

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaba/

aba f (plural abe)

1. Alternative form of apa

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

aba f

1. fish

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

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈpɑ/

aba

1. father

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpɑ/

aba

1. paternal uncle (father's younger brother)

aba

1. taro

aba

1. mat[1]
2. bed[1]

Uncertain. Cognate with Portuguese aba, Spanish álabe, French aube, Romanian aripă.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈaβa̝/

aba f (plural abas)

1. slope, hillside

   Synonyms: faldra, pé

2. apron, smock; folds of a shirt or dress

   Synonym: faldra

3. (anatomy) lap

   Synonym: colo

4. brim of a hat
5. rim

• abada
• abeaca
• abeiro

• “aba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “aba”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “aba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “aba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

aba

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌱𐌰

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *abá.

abá

1. alas, gosh, well, whew
2. wow

abâ

1. (questioning) really
2. (questioning) ah, oh

abá

1. (anatomy) shoulder blade

abá

1. to carry on one's back

IPA^(key): /abaʔ/

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

aba

1. father

   Aba aku ― My father

aba

1. smell

aba

1. with; and

   Jaba aba Jalir ― Jaba and Jalir

2. at; in

   Aba bilik iya ― He's in the room

Inherited from Malay aba, from Proto-Malayic *aba, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *aba, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *aba, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aba, from Proto-Austronesian *aba. Doublet of abah.

aba

1. father: a human male who begets a child.

• abah

• (parent): see Thesaurus:ayah

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

aba

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

• “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.

aba

1. Only used in ar aba

aba m sg

1. genitive singular of ab

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

aba

1. (Banawá) fish

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

aba

1. Romanization of ꦲꦧ

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaba/

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• Hyphenation: a‧ba
• Rhymes: -aba

aba f

1. (regional, Hel Peninsula) ebb, the receding movement of the tide
2. (regional, Hel Peninsula) ebb tide
3. (regional, Hel Peninsula) tide, any periodic change in sea level

• Wiesław Boryś, Hanna Popowska-Taborska (1994) “aba”, in Słownik etymologiczny Kaszubszczyzny‎, →ISBN

• Bernard Sychta (1967–1973) “aba”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich, volume 1, 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

Cognate with Latvian aba and Lithuanian aba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈaba]
• Hyphenation: a‧ba

aba

1. (archaic) or

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

aba

1. (archaic) just
2. (archaic) just now

• nupat
• tikko
• patlaban

aba

1. (archaic) or

• vai

aba

1. (archaic) both

• abi

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

1. (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.

• abba

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

aba

1. or (archaic)

aba

1. (Western Lokono) one.

• ábą

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

aba

1. (dialectal) father

• aba in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /abə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /aba/
• Rhymes: -abə, -bə, -ə

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

• abah, bah

aba (Jawi spelling اب, plural aba-aba, informal 1st possessive abaku, 2nd possessive abamu, 3rd possessive abanya)

1. Alternative form of abah

From Arabic أَب (ʔab).

aba (Jawi spelling اب, plural aba-aba, informal 1st possessive abaku, 2nd possessive abamu, 3rd possessive abanya)

1. father (male parent)

Shortened form of haba.

• haba

aba (Jawi spelling اب, plural aba-aba, informal 1st possessive abaku, 2nd possessive abamu, 3rd possessive abanya)

1. Alternative form of haba

Akin to Tagalog haba.

aba

1. long

Borrowed from English harbor.

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

aba

1. a harbor.
2. an anchorage.
3. a port.

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

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

• IPA^(key): /ǎβa/

ǎba

1. equine palatitis

• ndodi

• 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

aba

1. genitive singular of ab

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *rap, from Proto-Mawé-Guaraní *t͡sap, from Proto-Tupian *jap.[1]

Cognate with Sateré-Mawé sap, Guaraní ague.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.β̞a/
• Rhymes: -aβa
• Hyphenation: a‧ba

aba (IIa class pluriform, absolute taba, R1 raba, R2 saba) (possessable)

1. body hair
2. fur (hairy coat of various mammal species)
3. contour feather; plumage

   pykasuaba

   pigeon feathers

4. wool
5. woolen fabric

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

• Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos‎ (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 (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 5, columns 1–2

• Hyphenation: a‧ba
• IPA^(key): /aˈba/, [aˈba]
• Rhymes: -a

abá

1. taro

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

• Rhymes: -abɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧ba

aba f (plural abas)

1. brim (of a hat)

   a aba do chapéu

   the brim of the hat

2. flap (hinged leaf of furniture)
3. bank (of a river)

   Synonym: margem

4. (computing) tab (navigational widget in a GUI)

• abar
• desabar

• “aba” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

aba

1. inflection of abar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /aˈba/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧ba

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

aba f (uncountable)

1. thick woollen fabric, usually white, from which country-style clothing is often made

   Synonym: dimie

• pănură
• țesătură

aba

1. expresses wonder or draws attention to something

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

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

• (Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /ɑbɑ/

aba

1. father

• 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
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• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “aba”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 279
• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (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], 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

From Latin ava, feminine of avus.

aba f (plural abas)

1. grandmother

From Latin ala.

• ala

aba f (plural abas)

1. wing

• IPA^(key): /ˈab(b)a/

aba f (plural abi)

1. Alternative form of abi (“bee”)

• 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

• ab

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈapə/
• Hyphenation: a‧ba

aba m (genitive singular aba, plural abachan)

1. 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.

• abaid

• 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

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

aba f (Cyrillic spelling аба)

1. (regional) aba

• “aba” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• IPA^(key): [ˈaba]

aba f (genitive singular aby, declension pattern of žena)

1. aba, abaya

   Synonym: abája

• “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, 2024

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

-aba

1. to divide, to distribute

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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”).[1] As both words have the same meaning and could both easily have yielded Spanish aba, it is hardly possible to decide.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaba/ [ˈa.β̞a]
• Homophone: haba

¡aba!

1. caution!, watch out!

• “aba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

aba

1. Romanization of 𒀊 (aba)

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

-ába

1. (transitive) to share
2. (transitive) to distribute

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

abâ (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ)

1. poor, indigent

   Synonyms: dukha, maralita, hirap, mahirap

   Tulungan natin ang mga abang pamilya.

   Let's help the poor families.

2. humble; ordinary

   Synonyms: karaniwan, pangkaraniwan

3. oppressed, abused

   Synonyms: api, inapi, api-apihan

4. unfortunate

   Synonym: kaawa-awa

5. mean, despicable

   Synonym: hamak

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *abá.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈba/ [ʔɐˈba]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧ba

abá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ)

1. 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.

• ba

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.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈba/ [ʔɐˈba]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧ba

abá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ)

1. hail!

   Aba Ginoong Maria!

   Hail Mary!; Ave Maria!

• Aba Ginoong Maria

abá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜊ)

1. act of greeting or calling the attention of someone

   Synonyms: bati, pagbati

2. reminder or call of attention for someone about something

   Synonyms: banggit, ino, pagbanggit, pag-ino

• “aba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*abá”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
• 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

aba

1. Latin spelling of аба (aba)

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ba]

aba

1. father

   Synonym: baba

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

• IPA^(key): /ɑbɑ/

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

aba (definite accusative abayı, plural abalar)

1. (dialectal) elder sister
2. (dialectal) mother

From Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa).

aba (definite accusative abayı, plural abalar)

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

• aba güreşi

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

• IPA^(key): /ɑːbɑː/

aba

1. (archaic) fathers
2. (archaic) ancestors, forefathers
3. (archaic) Christian monks

aba

1. dative singular of ab

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

Compare Venetian àcua and Italian acqua.

aba f (plural abe)

1. (Belluno, Informal) water

• (Belluno) àiva
• (Belluno, Informal) buba

aba

1. (Loli) fat
2. (Loli) mouth

• 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

From Mandarin 阿爸 (ābà).

• IPA^(key): [apa]

aba

1. father

   Synonym: ha

   Coordinate terms: ana, ma

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

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

-aba

1. (transitive) to share
2. (transitive) to distribute

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

• IPA^(key): [âːɓa]

âba

1. these; class 2 proximal demonstrative.

• IPA^(key): /à.bá/

àbá

1. idea, suggestion

• IPA^(key): /ā.bà/

abà

1. barn, village

   Synonym: ahéré

   Synonym: abúlé

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

• IPA^(key): /à.bā/

àba

1. incubation

• IPA^(key): /ā.bá/

abá

1. type of mat

   Synonym: ẹní

• IPA^(key): /à.bá/

àbá

1. (Ekiti) father

   Synonyms: bàbá, aba

   Antonyms: iye, eye

2. (Ekiti) a term of familiarity or respect for an older man or male relative

   Synonyms: bàbá, aba

• IPA^(key): /ʔaba/

aba

1. father
2. paternal uncle (among the wegi clan); maternal uncle (sometimes)

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

• kisir

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

aba

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

From Proto-Bantu *-gàba.

-aba

1. (transitive) to divide, to apportion, to distribute
2. (transitive) to share