caba
English
Noun
caba (plural cabas)
- (dated) A cabas, or lady's bag.
- 1860, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, The haunted homestead: and other nouvellettes, page 279:
- Mrs. Sherbourne […] hurriedly searched her pocket, her caba, and her muff, without finding the lost treasure.
Anagrams
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From Spanish acabar (“to finish”).
Verb
caba
- (Saint-Domingue) to finish
- Nou caba planté pièce la vou té ordonné. ― We finished planting the place you ordered.
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: kaba
References
- S. J. Ducœurjoly (1802), Manuel des habitans de Saint-Domingue [Manual of the Inhabitants of Saint-Domingue][1] (in French), Paris
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈka.bɐ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.bɐ/ [ˈka.βɐ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.bɐ/
- Hyphenation: ca‧ba
Etymology 1
Noun
caba f (plural cabas)
- (Amazonas, Pará) wasp
- Synonyms: vespa, marimbondo, cabatão
Etymology 2
See cabra.
Noun
caba m (plural cabas)
- eye dialect spelling of cabra (“guy, dude”)
Further reading
- “caba”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “caba”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “caba”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish جابا (caba).
Noun
caba (definite accusative cabayı, plural cabalar)
Declension
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References
- “caba”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “caba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “جابا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 633
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