aba
noun
a variant of abaya.
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aba
1 American
[uh-bah, ah-buh]
/ əˈbɑ, ˈɑ bə /
Or
abba
noun
Aba
2
American
[ah-bah]
/ ɑˈbɑ /
noun
ABA
3
American
Or
A.B.A.
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Amateur Boxing Association.
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American Badminton Association.
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American Bankers Association.
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American Bar Association.
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American Basketball Association.
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American Booksellers Association.
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Associate in Business Administration.
ABA
1
British
abbreviation
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(in Britain) Amateur Boxing Association
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American Booksellers Association
aba
2
British
/ ˈæbə /
noun
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a type of cloth from Syria, made of goat hair or camel hair
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a sleeveless outer garment of such cloth
Etymology
Origin of aba
from Arabic
Vocabulary lists containing aba
Example Sentences
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Recent years have brought questions about the aba model.
From Time Magazine Archive
Osgood worked in an aba program for six years.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs to the clinic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wrapped in a black aba and white head scarf, she stood there weeping while he kissed several members.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can’t see my father, and I’m trying to cry out, Where is aba, where is my father?
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
Uche Okeke memorializes the Aba Women’s War of 1929, one of the first major anticolonial uprisings in Nigeria, with a throng of seething figures, their strength and determination reflected in vigorous brushstrokes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
The road to Aba shows off the money Beijing has pumped into this remote corner of the world.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
The Aba Rosh Hashanah menu is even more layered than that, blending Ashkenazi culinary stand-bys with wide-reaching Mediterranean flavors and a kind of Cali-specific breeziness.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
The region where the mines are located is home to about 1.4 million tonnes of lithium, a mining report by Aba government in January showed.
From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2023
“Rekh is a kinsman of his brother’s wife. You will meet me, then? Perhaps at the big tree by Aba the potter’s. Then we will go on together. Zau’s shop is near the palace.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Any final decision to reject the ABA is two steps and several months away; the outcome isn’t certain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services has found problems in ABA billing in several states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
It is outcome-based reimbursement tied to the child’s actual quality of life—and a serious reckoning with whether ABA, at any price, is the right product at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
More widespread harm occurs when payers, professionals and policymakers falsely equate autism therapeutic services with just one approach, ABA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Songs in which the first section returns again at the end are known as ternary, three-part or ABA.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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