Abe vs Aba - What's the difference?
abe | aba |
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 nouns the difference between abe and aba
is that abe is a five-dollar bill while aba is a coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.As a proper noun Abe
is a diminutive of the male given name Abraham.As a verb abe
is be.As an initialism ABA is
amateur Boxing Association.abe
English
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.