araba
araba noun: a horse-drawn carriage once used for transportation in pre-modern Turkey.
Noun
araba (plural arabas)
- A horse-drawn carriage once used for transportation in pre-modern Turkey.
- 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...1836, Julia Pardoe, City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks
- I found the examination of these antiquities much less pleasant than to look at the many troops of children assembled on the plain to play; and to watch them as they were dragged about in little queer arobas, or painted carriages, which are there kept for hire.1845, William Makepeace Thackeray, Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
Proper noun capitalized: Araba
Araba
araba meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Pashto
araba in Hindi
- carriage
- अराबा arābā
araba in Tamil
- மூடாக்கு வண்டி, கட்டை வண்டி
araba in Urdu
- carriage
- ارابہ arāba
araba in Pashto
- carriage
- ارابه arābá, عرابه arābá
More languagesFewer languages
- araba in Arabic
- عَرَبَة ʕaraba
- araba in Persian
- ارابه arâbe, arrâbe, عرابه 'arrâbe
Examples of araba in a sentence
- 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.1836, Julia Pardoe, City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks:
- There is, however, such a thing as an “araba,” a vehicle drawn by oxen, in which the wives of a rich man are sometimes dragged four or five miles over the grass by way of recreation.1898, Alexander William Kinglake, Eothen:
- Whenever I mounted the araba, he would whip his horses to a sharp trot or canter for half a mile, and then at a word stop for me to get out.1917, W.J. Childs, Across Asia Minor on Foot:
Forms of araba
| plural | arabas |
|---|---|
| alternative form | arba |
| alternative form | aroba |
Origin of araba
From Ottoman Turkish عربه (modern Turkish araba).
Questions about araba
- What does araba mean?
- Araba means a horse-drawn carriage once used for transportation in pre-modern Turkey.
- What is araba in Hindi?
- Araba in Hindi is अराबा (arābā). See Araba meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use araba in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is araba?
- Araba can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of araba?
- The plural of araba is arabas.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: araba (page history and authors); Araba (page history and authors); araba (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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