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] (in Latin), 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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Shortened slang form of hauis.

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

habá

1. pronunciation variant of saba

• Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (2021) Lingguwistikong Etnograpiya ng Kankanaey [Linguistic Ethnography of Kankanaey]‎^[2] (in Tagalog, Kankanaey, and Northern Kankanay), archived from the original on 25 September 2024, 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)

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

• Middle High German: habe
  • 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)

• Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like haba, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el haba. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al haba, del haba.

This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un haba or una haba. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) are used: la mejor haba, una buena haba.

• In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
• The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el haba única, un(a) haba buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.

• → Mezquital Otomi: aba
• → Quechua: jawas

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

• “haba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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 / aba, Hanunoo aba, Bikol Central laba, Aklanon haba, Hiligaynon laba, and 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

• baha