Aba

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English

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Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Aba

  1. The largest city in Abia State, Nigeria.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Aba

  1. Synonym of Ngawa: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • , 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)‎, 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, archived from the original on 06 March 2023, Top News‎:
      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, archived from the original on 27 May 2022‎:
      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.
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Etymology 3

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From Ancient Greek Ἄβα (Ába).

Proper noun

Aba

  1. (Greek mythology) a Thracian naiad nymph

Anagrams

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa).

Pronunciation

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Noun

Aba f (genitive Aba, plural Abas)

  1. (clothing) aba

Declension

Declension of Aba
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

 Aba on Hungarian Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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

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.

Case Singular
Nominative Aba
Genitive Abae
Dative Abae
Accusative Abam
Ablative Abā
Vocative Aba
Locative Abae

Pronunciation 2

Proper noun

Abā m

  1. ablative of Aba

Turkish

Proper noun

Aba

  1. a female given name
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