AB
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ab"
English edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is the halal snack pack sense an initialism or other form of shortening?”)
Proper noun edit
AB
- Abbreviation of Alberta, a province of Canada.
- Initialism of Artium baccalaureus.
- Initialism of Aryan Brotherhood, a US white supremacist, neo-Nazi prison gang and crime syndicate.
Noun edit
AB (countable and uncountable, plural ABs)
- Initialism of able seaman; able-bodied seaman.
- Section 2(1), Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance (Cap. 478)
- In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires— A.B. means an able-bodied seaman […]
- Section 2(1), Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance (Cap. 478)
- Initialism of afterburner.
- Initialism of aid to the blind.
- (military, aviation) Initialism of airbase.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.
- Hyponym: LAB
- (medicine) Initialism of antibody.
- Initialism of artificial breeding.
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly bill.
- A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
- (countable) A person with this blood type.
- (ABDL) Initialism of adult baby.
- (Australia, Adelaide, countable) A kind of halal snack pack.
Related terms edit
assembly bill
Adjective edit
AB (not comparable)
- Initialism of airborne.
- Initialism of antiballistic.
- (baseball) Initialism of at bat.
See also edit
References edit
- “AB”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “AB”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams edit
Chinese edit
Etymology edit
From the first two letters of the English alphabet A and B.
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
AB
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) two separate (instances)
- 分AB team返工 [Cantonese] ― fan1 ei1 bi1 tim1 faan1 gung1 [Jyutping] ― to go to work separated into two teams (i.e. each team goes to work on alternative days)
- 行AB team [Cantonese] ― haang4 ei1 bi1 tim1 [Jyutping] ― to install an "AB team" system
- 分AB組／分AB组 [Cantonese] ― fan1 ei1 bi1 zou2 [Jyutping] ― to separate into two groups
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Audio (file)
Noun edit
AB m
- Abbreviation of Anrufbeantworter.
- (apartment listing) Abbreviation of Altbau.
Indonesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
AB (first-person possessive ABku, second-person possessive ABmu, third-person possessive ABnya)
- (finance, government, management) Initialism of anggaran belanja.
- Initialism of arah benar.
- (military) Initialism of angkatan bersenjata.
- (business, management) Initialism of administrasi bisnis.
- (hematology) AB: A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
Further reading edit
- “AB” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
AB
- (biology) the blood type AB
- Initialism of anggaran belanja (“expense estimate”).
References edit
- “AB” in Kamus Dewan Perdana, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2021, →ISBN, page 1.
Further reading edit
- “AB” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Romanian edit
Proper noun edit
AB
- Abbreviation of Alba, a county in Romania.
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
- Ab (Finland Swedish, only in the sense "aktiebolag" below)
Noun edit
AB
- the blood type AB
- Abbreviation of aktiebolag. (corporation; stock company; public limited company)
Anagrams edit
Turkish edit
Noun edit
AB
- the blood type AB
Proper noun edit
AB
- (politics) Initialism of Avrupa Birliği (European Union)