Aba vs Abt - What's the difference?
aba | abt |
A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs.
* 1957 , Lawrence Durrell, Justine :
(academics) a'll '''b'''ut ' t hesis: A description of the status of a masters , doctoral, or (infrequently) undergraduate student who has completed all degree requirements except the culminating thesis.
As nouns the difference between aba and abt
is that aba is man, especially a brazilian male indian while abt is .aba
English
Etymology 1
. Compare (abaya).Alternative forms
* abbaNoun
(en noun)- 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.