Aba may refer to:

Animals

  • Aba roundleaf bat
  • Gymnarchus (or aba), an electric fish

People

Clans

  • Aba (family), in Hungary
  • Aba people, in Russia
  • Hape people, in North America

In arts and entertainment

  • Aba Bayefsky, Canadian artist and teacher
  • Aba Cercato, Italian television presenter
  • Vilmos Aba-Novák, a Hungarian painter

Rulers

  • Aba, ruler of Olba
  • Samuel Aba, 11th-century Hungarian king

Other people

  • Aba I, patriarch of the Church of the East from 540 to 552
  • Aba II, patriarch of the Church of the East from 741 to 751
  • Aba Andam, Ghanaian physicist
  • Johnny Aba (born 1956), a Papua New Guinean boxer

Places

Africa

  • Aba, Nigeria
  • Aba River (Nigeria)
  • Aba Island, on Sudan's White Nile river
  • Aba, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Asia

  • Aba (Russia), a river
  • Aba, Okayama, Japan
  • Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, China
  • Aba County
  • Aba, Sichuan
  • Upu (also transliterated Aba), a historic region around Damascus

Europe

  • Aba, Hungary

Religion and mythology

  • Aba (mythology), Hellenic Thracian naiad nymph
  • Anglican Province of Aba, Nigeria
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Aba, Nigeria
  • Aba, the Great Spirit of Choctaw mythology

Other uses

  • Aba (Dune), a robe in the fictional Dune universe
  • Aba (film), a 2008 Sri Lanka film
  • Aba Women's War, period of unrest in colonial Nigeria
  • A short form of Abaya, a middle eastern robe
  • Alternative name for Bisht, a men's cloak worn in Arab countries
  • Applied behavioral analysis
  • an early passenger motor vessel and World War II hospital ship, in service 1921-47

See also

  • Abaá, a Fang longhouse
  • Abba (disambiguation)
  • Abas (disambiguation)
  • Ab (Semitic), "father" in Semitic languages
  • ABA (disambiguation)