Aba

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)