Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fabric woven of the hair of camels or goats.
  • noun A loose-fitting sleeveless garment made of this fabric or of wool, traditionally worn by Arabs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An altazimuth instrument, designed by Antoine d'Abbadie, for determining latitude on land without the use of an artificial horizon.
  • noun A coarse woolen stuff, woven of goats' or camels' or other hair or wool in Syria, Arabia, and neighboring countries.
  • noun An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert.
  • noun A garment of similar shape worn in the towns, made of finer material.
  • noun Also spelled abba.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A coarse, often striped, fabric from the middle east, woven from goat or camel hair.
  • noun An altazimuth used for astronomy on either land or water.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth; worn by Arabs
  • noun a fabric woven from goat hair and camel hair

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Arabic ‘abā’.]

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From Arabic عَبَاءَة.

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