Abax vs Aba - What's the difference?
abax | aba |
an ancient counting board containing grooves in which counters were placed.
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 :
As a proper noun abax
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English
Noun
(abaxes)- Basic arithmetic could be done with an abax .
- The abax was a forerunner of the abacus .
Usage notes
* The plural form abaxes is currently unattested.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.