aba
noun
a variant of abaya.
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
-
(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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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
Like most other children at the school, she started aba therapy at home as a toddler.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the past 20 years, the dominant way to work with autistic children has been based on Applied Behavior Analysis. aba derives from the classic work of psychologist B.F.
From Time Magazine Archive
Naffisa Abdullah, an Arab woman dressed in a black head scarf and a navy blue aba, says she will resist any attempts to force her out of her home.
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
Still, some in Aba, or Ngaba in Tibetan, which is home to the Kirti monastery, have gone to extreme measures to challenge these restrictions.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
And for other ideas on how to update traditional Rosh Hashanah recipes, read Salon Food's interview with "Top Chef" alum CJ Jacobson on how he's approaching his holiday menu at his restaurant Aba.
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
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
According to court records, ABA Centers billed Publix’s health plan up to $1,320 an hour for routine autism-therapy services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
ABA Centers declined to comment, and Publix didn’t respond to a request for comment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
In a press release last year, ABA Centers said Publix cut off its payments 10 months before the lawsuits, but that it continued to provide services to Publix-covered families that the health-plan approved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
She said the ABA once reached "tens of thousands of teachers" a year with its resources, but now reaches a fraction of that after introducing charging to meet costs.
From BBC ● May 26, 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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