Aba
See also: Appendix:Variations of "aba"
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Aba
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
city
Etymology 2 edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 阿壩／阿坝 (Ābà).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Aba
- Synonym of Ngawa: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- [1976, Daily Report: People's Republic of China[1], number 128-148, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:
- In Apa Prefecture, two-thirds of the cadres are of minority nationalities and many of the leading cadres were poor peasants or herdsmen before liberation.]
- 1992, Robert Strauss, “Kham & the Sichuan Routes”, in Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet)[2], 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155, column 1:
- The main Tibetan areas in Sichuan are now designated as Aba (Ngawa) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Muli Tibetan Autonomous County.
- 2011 April 22, Michael Martina, Sally Huang, “China bans foreigners from restive Tibetan areas”, in Ben Blanchard, Ken Wills, Yoko Nishikawa, editors, Reuters[3], archived from the original on 06 March 2023, Top News[4]:
- The notice, issued by provincial public security authorities, said foreigners were prohibited from entering the Tibetan populated prefecture of Ganzi and several counties in neighboring Aba prefecture.
- 2013 February 26, “Tibetan monks self-immolate in anti-China protest”, in AP News[5], archived from the original on 27 May 2022[6]:
- Last week, two Tibetan teenagers set themselves on fire in a double self-immolation in Aba prefecture, Tibet rights advocacy groups said. Seventeen-year-old Richen and his childhood friend Sonam Dargye, 18, were among the youngest to have died in the fiery protests.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Aba.
Etymology 3 edit
From Ancient Greek Ἄβα (Ába).
Proper noun edit
Aba
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
Aba f (genitive Aba, plural Abas)
Declension edit
Declension of Aba [feminine]
Further reading edit
- “Aba” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Aba
- a male given name
- A town in Fejér County, Hungary.
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Aba | Abák |
| accusative | Abát | Abákat |
| dative | Abának | Abáknak |
| instrumental | Abával | Abákkal |
| causal-final | Abáért | Abákért |
| translative | Abává | Abákká |
| terminative | Abáig | Abákig |
| essive-formal | Abaként | Abákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Abában | Abákban |
| superessive | Abán | Abákon |
| adessive | Abánál | Abáknál |
| illative | Abába | Abákba |
| sublative | Abára | Abákra |
| allative | Abához | Abákhoz |
| elative | Abából | Abákból |
| delative | Abáról | Abákról |
| ablative | Abától | Abáktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Abáé | Abáké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Abáéi | Abákéi |
| Possessive forms of Aba | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Abám | Abáim |
| 2nd person sing. | Abád | Abáid |
| 3rd person sing. | Abája | Abái |
| 1st person plural | Abánk | Abáink |
| 2nd person plural | Abátok | Abáitok |
| 3rd person plural | Abájuk | Abáik |
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Via Ancient Greek Ἄβος (Ábos), given in Strabo, from an unknown source.
Pronunciation 1 edit
Proper noun edit
Aba m sg (genitive Abae); first declension
- A mountain in classical Armenia, said to be the source of the Euphrates and Araxes (Araks) rivers, probably Bingöl Dağı in modern Turkey.
Declension edit
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Aba |
| Genitive | Abae |
| Dative | Abae |
| Accusative | Abam |
| Ablative | Abā |
| Vocative | Aba |
| Locative | Abae |
Pronunciation 2 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.baː/, [ˈäbäː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ba/, [ˈäːbä]
Proper noun edit
Abā m
- ablative of Aba
Turkish edit
Proper noun edit
Aba
- a female given name