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English
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- IPA: /æb/
- Rhymes: -æb
Etymology 1
AbsAbbreviation of abdominal muscles.
Noun
ab (plural abs)
- (informal) abdominal muscle
- 2010, Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", Reps! 17:106
- When possible, do your ab workout on a day when you're not training a major muscle group […] .
- 2010, Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", Reps! 17:106
Usage notes
Most often used attributively. Substantive use is more common in the plural form abs.
Translations
abdominal muscle
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Etymology 2
Abbreviation of abscess.
Noun
ab (plural abs)
Translations
an abscess caused by injecting an illegal drugEtymology 3
Abbreviations, see definitions.
Abbreviation
ab
References
- “ab” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
- "ab" in Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 2002.
- “ab” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
Anagrams
Aynu
Etymology
From Persian آب.
Noun
ab
Catalan
Preposition
ab
Danish
Etymology 1
From Latin ab (“of, from”).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ab/, [ɑb̥]
Preposition
ab
Etymology 2
See abe (“to ape, mimic”).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /aːb/, [æːˀb̥]
Verb
ab
- imperative of abe
German
Etymology
From Old High German ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ap/
Preposition
ab
- Beginning at that time or location; from.
- ab heute verfügbar (available from today on)
Derived terms
Interlingua
Preposition
ab
Irish
Noun
ab m.
Declension
- Third declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h prefix | with t- prefix |
| ab | n-ab | hab | t-ab |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Latin
Pronunciation
Preposition
ab (also a)
- of, from, by, since (takes object in ablative case).
Usage notes
- Sometimes shortened to ā (except in cases where the following ablative noun begins with a vowel or h).
- It is used in conjunction with passive verbs to mark the passive voice. Ex: "Liber ā discipulō aperītur (literally, "book by student is opened"/ fig. "the book is opened by the student").
References
- Latin Dictionary, Lewis and Short, 1879.
- Lingua Latina, Hans H. Ørberg, 2005.
Livonian
Noun
ab (plural abūd)
Occitan
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: ['ab]
Preposition
ab
- (Guardiol) with
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *ab.
Preposition
ab
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *abon- (compare Welsh afon) < Proto-Indo-European *h₂eb- (“water”).
Noun
ab n.
Descendants
- Irish: abhainn
- Manx: awin
- Scottish Gaelic: abhainn
Old Provençal
Etymology
Reduced form of Latin apud
Preposition
ab
- with
- circa 1000, unknown, Lo Poèma de Boecis:
- Non comprarias ab mil liuras d’argent.
- circa 1000, unknown, Lo Poèma de Boecis:
Descendants
Pumpokol
Noun
ab
Romani
Noun
ab m. (plural ab)
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
ab m. (genitive aba, plural abachan)
- Alternative form of aba.
Turkish
Etymology
From Persian آب (āb).
Noun
ab
Volapük
Etymology
From German aber (“but”).
Conjunction
ab
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Ab, aB, and ab
- Ab (Egyptian heart-soul concept), the Egyptian concept of the heart-soul
- Ab (Semitic), Semitic for "father"
- Ab, alternate name for Anzab-e Olya, village in Iran
- Rectus abdominis muscle (ab), a paired stomach muscle
- Abkhaz language (ISO 639 language code)
- Antibody, a medical abbreviation
- Av, a month in the Hebrew calendar
- The category of abelian groups
- A-flat (disambiguation) ("A♭"), the musical note, scale, or key
- AussieBum (an Australian men's swimwear and underwear manufacturer)
- Indo-European for "water", see ap (water)
AB, A.B. or A-B
General
- "Able-bodied", as used by some members of the disabled community
- Able Seaman (occupation), a civilian occupation
- Able Seaman (rank), a naval rank
- Address book
- Adult Baby, one who engages in infantilism.
- Airman Basic, the lowest rank in the United States Air Force
- Assembly Bill
- Bachelor of Arts, derived from the Latin artium baccalaureus
- Good Eats host Alton Brown's nickname
- Analecta Bollandiana, academic journal
People
- A. B. Yehoshua (born 1936), Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright
Locations, places, and types of places
- AB postcode area
- Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, commonly abbreviated as AB
- Albania (WMO country code)
- Alberta (Canadian Province/Territory Code)
- Alba County, county in Romania in the ISO 3166-2:RO code
- Air Base, used by the United States Air Force for overseas bases
- Ancienne Belgique, Belgian concert hall located in Brussels
- Anime Boston, an annual three-day anime fan convention held in the spring in Boston, Massachusetts
Culture and history
- Aitareya Brahmana
- Aryan Brotherhood, a white prison gang
- German AB-Aktion operation in Poland, AB-Aktion for short, the German extermination of Polish intelligentsia in World War II
- Anti-Bolshevik League, a secret police unit in Republican China
- Ab., a Hebrew abbreviation related to Pirkei Avot
Popular music
- Alter Bridge, an American hard rock band
Companies, universities, organizations, and groups
- AB Airlines, a defunct British airline
- Activision Blizzard, a video game developer and publisher
- Afrikaner Broederbond, the South African secret society from 1918–1994
- Air Berlin, IATA code
- Akcinė bendrovė, Lithuanian for "corporation", similar to AG, Ltd or Inc
- Aktiebolag, Swedish for "corporation", similar to AG, Ltd or Inc
- Alderson-Broaddus College, a liberal-arts college in West Virginia
- Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos, a Greek supermarket chain
- Allen-Bradley, manufacturer of industrial control and automation products
- AllianceBernstein, a US based asset management firm
- American Biograph, a film company
- Anheuser-Busch, the world's third largest brewing company
- Appellate Body, a division of the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO
- Applied Biosystems, a US-based biotechnology firm
- Artium Baccalaureus, Latin for Bachelor of Arts, often abbreviated A.B. (same degree as B.A.)
- Aryan Brotherhood, an American gang
Medicine, science, technology, and math
- One of the human blood types in the ABO blood group system
- AB Class amplifier
- Aharonov–Bohm effect arising in a certain experiment of quantum mechanics
- Abscesses caused by injections, especially heroin injection
- Antibody
- ApacheBench, command line tool for Apache HTTP Server
- Aurora Borealis
- Beta amyloid
- NZR A class, a locomotive class operated by the New Zealand Railways Department
- Answerbag, a questions and answers site
Sports
- At Bat, baseball statistic
- Andris Biedriņš, basketball player
- Aaron Brooks (American football)
- Aaron Brooks (basketball), basketball player
- Akademisk Boldklub, a Danish professional football club
- AB is the nickname of Australian cricketer Allan Border
- Atlanta Braves, an MLB Baseball team
- AB de Villiers, South African middle order batsman
See also
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