A'bad

English

Etymology

Contraction of Ahmedabad. The apostrophe character ' separating:

1. The first letter, A, of the unabbreviated spelling.
2. The Persian placename suffix -abad with the elision of the initial vowel letter.

Compare H’bad.

Proper noun

A’bad

1. Abbreviation of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
   • 1980, Direct Tax Bulletin, volume XIX, number 1, Directorate of Inspection, page 95:

     Income-tax Circles, Wards & Districts
     Circle, I, A’bad.
     Circle-III, A’bad.

   • 2025 January 2, Sonali Mistry, “A’bad Runs Out Of ‘12 Grapes Of Luck’”, in Ahmedabad Mirror‎^[1], archived from the original on 2025-01-03: