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• aba
  aba

  noun

  a variant of abaya.
• Aba
  Aba

  noun

  a town in SE Nigeria.
• ABA
  ABA

  Amateur Boxing Association.

aba

¹ American  

[uh-bah, ah-buh] / əˈbɑ, ˈɑ bə /

Or abba

noun

1. a variant of abaya.

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Aba ² American  

[ah-bah] / ɑˈbɑ /

noun

1. a town in SE Nigeria.

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ABA ³ American  

Or A.B.A.

1. Amateur Boxing Association.

2. American Badminton Association.

3. American Bankers Association.

4. American Bar Association.

5. American Basketball Association.

6. American Book Award.

7. American Booksellers Association.

8. Associate in Business Administration.

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ABA ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. (in Britain) Amateur Boxing Association

2. American Booksellers Association

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aba ² British  

/ ˈæbə /

noun

1. a type of cloth from Syria, made of goat hair or camel hair

2. a sleeveless outer garment of such cloth

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Etymology

Origin of aba

from Arabic

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

aba Aba ABA

Osgood worked in an aba program for six years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says Tristram Smith of the University of Rochester: "Anything outside aba is basically experimental at this point."

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

Recent years have brought questions about the aba model.

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

"It was just one of those culinary moments for me," he told The Nosher in 2018 amid the buzz of Aba Chicago's opening.

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

At Aba in Bal Harbour, the laid-back Middle Eastern mini chain from the Chicago-based hospitality group Lettuce Entertain You, where cold meze and kebabs dominate the menu, there are little wooden stools for bags.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

He was waiting at Aba the potter’s late that afternoon when Heqet came running down the dusty street.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

If state licensing boards loosen the grip that ABA accreditation has enjoyed for decades, innovative and technologically driven market entrants will create modern curricula that better reflect what the practice of law entails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The ABA had told schools to show “concrete” efforts toward diversity and inclusion in their student bodies and faculties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The CMS suggestions could crimp the practices of ABA providers that bill a high number of hours of therapy for nearly every patient.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Kate McEvoy, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, said that with rapid growth in ABA spending, state officials welcome CMS guidance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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