Araba

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A horse-drawn carriage once used for transportation in pre-modern Turkey. historical

    "No one but a native of the luxurious East could ever have invented an araba, with its comfortable cushions, and its gaily painted roof, and gilded pillars. The prettiest are those of brown and gold, with rose-coloured draperies, through which the breeze flutters to your cheek as blandly as though it loved the tint that reminded it of the roses of the past season amid which it had wandered.""

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Kingdom of Hatra, a 2nd-century Arab kingdom located between the Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire, mostly under Parthian suzerainty, in modern-day northern Iraq.

Synonyms

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carriage

Example

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"The suffix "da" is added to the noun "araba" to give the meaning of "in the car.""

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish عربه (modern Turkish araba).

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