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saba
/ˈsɑ.bə/
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What does saba mean?
noun
- A sweet grape syrup made from grape must
- A triploid hybrid banana cultivar from the Philippines (Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana).
- Mackerel.
More meanings (6)
noun
- Initialism of short-acting beta-adrenoceptor agonist, a drug class used in the treatment of respiratory diseases.
proper noun
- An island, dependent territory, and special municipality of the Netherlands in the Caribbean.
- Sheba: an ancient civilization in South Arabia (now Yemen), and crossing the Red Sea into the Horn of Africa.
- An East Chadic language spoken in Chad.
- 34th Surah of Quran.
- A surname from Arabic.
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IPA pronunciation
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Some hours after sunset I reached the convent of Santa Saba, and there remained for the night.
"Bacalem yole lazim, bacalem saba," I reply, for it is too dark to ride on unknown ground this evening.
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Saba was never More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue Than this pure soul shall be.
In Ethiopia is the city of Saba, and the land of the which one of the three kings that presented our Lord in Bethlehem, was king of.
Early in the seventh century there was composed, as is now believed, at the Convent of St. Saba near Jerusalem, a pious romance entitled Barlaam and Josaphat--the latter personage, the hero of the story, being represented as a Hindu prince converted to Christianity by the former.