Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A heavy, springless wagon, usually covered with a screen as shelter from the rays of the sun, drawn by oxen or cows, and used throughout northwestern and central Asia, India, Turkey, and Russia, wherever Tatars have settled.
  • noun A howling monkey of the South American genus Mycetes, M. stramineus. See howler.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Oriental A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered.

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  • noun A carriage used in Turkey and Asia Minor drawn by horses or oxen.

Etymologies

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From Russian арба (arbá), from Turkish araba.

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Examples

  • One of these, the "araba," is an heirloom from their old Tartar ancestry, and is only an exaggerated ox-cart with seats, and a scaffolding of poles around it.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • - G. Serra (eds), Aristotele e Alessandro di Afrodisia nella tradizione araba, Il Poligrafo, Padova 2002, 191-231.

    Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy D'Ancona, Cristina 2009

  • For a genuine old-fashioned family carriage commend us to the araba.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • There they jumped into an araba with a kavass on the box, dashed down Pera Street, past the banking quarter, over the Galata bridge, up the Sublime Porte Road and into the Bayazid Square, where they reached their destination.

    Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

  • We hired an araba, filled it with straw, and some boxes to sit upon, and set out very early, with two old umbrellas to shield us from the mid-day sun and the night dews.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

  • Stepping ashore, you see a long line of carriages drawn up in several rows, and of every conceivable variety -- from the Turkish araba to the most coquettish-looking Parisian coupé -- gilded and adorned in a style to make a French lorette stare with amazement at a lavishness of expenditure exceeding her own.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • And a few days later came over a large araba, drawn by four mules, and laden with a pair of glass-doors, and some window-frames, which the thoughtful kind Pacha had judged -- and judged rightly -- would be a very acceptable present.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

  • That he had already produced an atmosphere of danger to us I had immediate proof, for as I crossed the yard again I dodged behind an araba in the nick of time to avoid a blow aimed at me with a sword by a man I could not see.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Two Hindus were unpacking bundles out of a creaking araba, watched scornfully by an unmistakable Pathan.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • A little before dawn, when the saw-tooth tips of the mountain range on our left were first touched with opal and gold, we turned off the araba track along which we had so far come and entered a ravine leading toward Marash.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

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  • A carriage, wagon, or cart drawn by horses or oxen, used in Turkey and neighboring Middle Eastern countries.

    October 22, 2008