haba

Borrowed from Arabic خَبَر (ḵabar, “news”).

haba

1. news

hàbà

1. hippopotamus

• Moi, Daniel Rabbi and Mario Lau Babur Kuduku, Sister Mary Mangira Michael, Simon Hagimir John, Rapheal Zakenia Paul Mafoi, Nyoul Gulluma Kuduku. 2018. Bongo – English Dictionary. Juba, South Sudan. SIL-South Sudan.

From Proto-Italic *fabā, whence Latin faba.^[1] See more at the Proto-Italic entry.

haba f

1. bean
   • [1st–2nd century C.E., Quintus Terentius Scaurus, De Orthographia‎^[1], section 4.3:

     Nec minus consonantes, ut f et h: utraque enim [est] flatus; quare quem antiqui fircum, nos hircum, et quam Falisci habam, nos fabam appellamus, et quem antiqui fariolum, nos hariolum.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑbɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝bɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑbɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ha‧ba

haba (colloquial)

1. biceps

• hauis

haba

1. Romanization of 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰

haba

1. h-prothesized form of aba

haba

1. Rōmaji transcription of はば

• IPA^(key): /haˈba/, [hʌˈba]

habá (Sabangan, particularly Bun-ayan, Pingad, Bao-angan, Camatagan, Napua, Gayang, Capinitan, Busa, Namatec)

1. Alternative form of saba

• Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (2021) Lingguwistikong Etnograpiya ng Kankanaey [Linguistic Ethnography of Kankanaey]‎^[2] (in Tagalog, Kankanaey, and Northern Kankanay), page 61

Cognate with Atong (India) ha·ba (“paddy”).

haba

1. a working field, paddy
2. any place of work

• IPA^(key): /ha.ba/

haba (Jawi spelling هاب, informal 1st possessive habaku, 2nd possessive habamu, 3rd possessive habanya)

1. (energy form) latent heat, heat conduction
2. (radiated) warmth, hotness

aba (shortened form)

• kepanasan hawa
• bahang

penghabaan

suhu

• “haba” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• "haba" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.

Derived from the verb habēn

haba f

1. property

• German: Habe

Inherited from Old Spanish faba, from Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with English fava.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaba/ [ˈa.β̞a]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: ha‧ba

haba f (plural habas)

1. broad bean, horse bean (Fabaceae, Vicia faba)
2. bean (cocoa, coffee, etc.)
3. ballot ball
4. nodule (in stone)
5. nugget of ore (with gangue)
6. bump (caused by insect bite)
7. (veterinary) equine palatitis (disease of horses)

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el haba, un haba

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

• → Mezquital Otomi: aba
• → Quechua: jawas

• frijol
• habichuela
• poroto (South America)
• judía (Spain)

• “haba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Arabic حَبَّة (ḥabba).^[1]

• Audio (Kenya):

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haba (invariable)

1. few, scarce, rare, little

   Synonym: chache

   Antonym: -ingi

• uhaba

From Greater Central Philippine *habaʔ (“long (object)”). Compare Ilocano akaba, Kapampangan kaba, Hanunoo aba, Bikol Central laba, Aklanon haba, Hiligaynon laba, Tausug haba'. See also the coincidentally similar Japanese 幅(はば) (haba).^[1]

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈhabaʔ/ [ˈhaː.bɐʔ] (“length; extent of time”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -abaʔ
  • IPA^(key): /haˈbaʔ/ [hɐˈbaʔ] (“long and narrow”, adjective; “garfish”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ha‧ba

habà (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜊ)

1. length; lengthiness

   Synonym: kahabaan

2. extent of time

   Synonyms: tagal, luwat

3. long duration of time

   Synonyms: katagalan, kaluwatan

habâ (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜊ)

1. long and narrow; elongate

   Synonyms: pahaba, taluhaba

habâ (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜊ)

1. garfish

   Synonym: isdang-haba

• “haba”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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