aba

noun5

1. •
   A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs.

   • 'A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.' — 1934
2. •
   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.
3. •
   Such a garment that is specific to women.
4. •
   A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
5. •
   An electric fish of species Gymnarchus niloticus (frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa.

noun1

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

noun2

1. •
   Initialism of applied behavior analysis.

   • The company has calculated that, in some states, this reduction could impact more than two-fifths of its ABA therapy provider groups in network and up to 19% of its patients in therapy. — 2024
2. •
   Initialism of abscisic acid, a plant hormone.

   • Rudnicki and colleagues found ABA to increase with ripening of strawberry fruits (16) and of pears (17) and during the development of apple fruits (18). — 1972

noun1

1. •
   The largest city in Abia State, Nigeria.