Aba

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aba"

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈbɑ/

Proper noun

Aba

1. The largest city in Abia State, Nigeria.

Derived terms

• Aba North
• Aba South

Translations

city

• Marathi: आबा (ābā)

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 阿壩／阿坝 (Ābà).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑˈbɑ/

Proper noun

Aba

1. Synonym of Ngawa: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • [1976, Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], number 128-148, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:

     In Apa Prefecture, two-thirds of the cadres are of minority nationalities and many of the leading cadres were poor peasants or herdsmen before liberation.]

   • 1992, Robert Strauss, “Kham & the Sichuan Routes”, in Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet)‎^[2], 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155, column 1:

     The main Tibetan areas in Sichuan are now designated as Aba (Ngawa) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Muli Tibetan Autonomous County.

   • 2011 April 22, Michael Martina, Sally Huang, “China bans foreigners from restive Tibetan areas”, in Ben Blanchard, Ken Wills, Yoko Nishikawa, editors, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 06 March 2023, Top News‎^[4]:

     The notice, issued by provincial public security authorities, said foreigners were prohibited from entering the Tibetan populated prefecture of Ganzi and several counties in neighboring Aba prefecture.

   • 2013 February 26, “Tibetan monks self-immolate in anti-China protest”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 27 May 2022‎^[6]:

     Last week, two Tibetan teenagers set themselves on fire in a double self-immolation in Aba prefecture, Tibet rights advocacy groups said. Seventeen-year-old Richen and his childhood friend Sonam Dargye, 18, were among the youngest to have died in the fiery protests.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Aba.

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek Ἄβα (Ába).

Proper noun

Aba

1. (Greek mythology) a Thracian naiad nymph

Anagrams

• AAB, BAA, baa

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Aba f (genitive Aba, plural Abas)

1. (clothing) aba

Declension

Declension of Aba [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Aba	die	Abas
genitive	einer	der	Aba	der	Abas
dative	einer	der	Aba	den	Abas
accusative	eine	die	Aba	die	Abas

Further reading

• “Aba” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒbɒ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Aba
• Rhymes: -bɒ

Proper noun

Aba

1. a male given name
2. A town in Fejér County, Hungary.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Aba	Abák
accusative	Abát	Abákat
dative	Abának	Abáknak
instrumental	Abával	Abákkal
causal-final	Abáért	Abákért
translative	Abává	Abákká
terminative	Abáig	Abákig
essive-formal	Abaként	Abákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Abában	Abákban
superessive	Abán	Abákon
adessive	Abánál	Abáknál
illative	Abába	Abákba
sublative	Abára	Abákra
allative	Abához	Abákhoz
elative	Abából	Abákból
delative	Abáról	Abákról
ablative	Abától	Abáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	Abáé	Abáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	Abáéi	Abákéi

Possessive forms of Aba
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Abám	Abáim
2nd person sing.	Abád	Abáid
3rd person sing.	Abája	Abái
1st person plural	Abánk	Abáink
2nd person plural	Abátok	Abáitok
3rd person plural	Abájuk	Abáik

Latin

Etymology

Via Ancient Greek Ἄβος (Ábos), given in Strabo, from an unknown source.

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ba/, [ˈäbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ba/, [ˈäːbä]

Proper noun

Aba m sg (genitive Abae); first declension

1. A mountain in classical Armenia, said to be the source of the Euphrates and Araxes (Araks) rivers, probably Bingöl Dağı in modern Turkey.

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Aba
genitive	Abae
dative	Abae
accusative	Abam
ablative	Abā
vocative	Aba
locative	Abae

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.baː/, [ˈäbäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ba/, [ˈäːbä]

Proper noun

Abā m

1. ablative of Aba

Turkish

Proper noun

Aba

1. a female given name