Saba vs Aba - What's the difference?
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(cooking) A sweet grape syrup made from grape must
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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 saba and aba
is that saba is a sweet grape syrup made from grape must while aba is a coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.As a proper noun Saba
is an island in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela, a special municipality of the Netherlands.As an initialism ABA is
amateur Boxing Association.saba
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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.
