Ema vs Aba - What's the difference?
ema | aba |
A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.
----
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 an initialism ema
is (travel industry) excess mileage allowance.As a noun aba is
man, especially a brazilian male indian.ema
English
Noun
(ema)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.
