# Aba

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**Aba** may refer to:

## Animals

- [Aba roundleaf bat](/source/Aba_roundleaf_bat)
- *[Gymnarchus](/source/Gymnarchus)* (or *aba*), an electric fish

## People

See also: [Mar Aba (disambiguation)](/source/Mar_Aba_(disambiguation))

### Clans

- *Aba (family)*, in Hungary
- [Aba people](/source/Aba_people), in Russia
- [Hape people](/source/Hape_people), in North America

### In arts and entertainment

- [Aba Bayefsky](/source/Aba_Bayefsky), Canadian artist and teacher
- [Aba Cercato](/source/Aba_Cercato), Italian television presenter
- [Vilmos Aba-Novák](/source/Vilmos_Aba-Nov%C3%A1k), a Hungarian painter

### Rulers

- [Aba, ruler of Olba](/source/Aba,_ruler_of_Olba)
- [Samuel Aba](/source/Samuel_Aba), 11th-century Hungarian king

### Other people

- [Aba I](/source/Aba_I), patriarch of the Church of the East from 540 to 552
- [Aba II](/source/Aba_II), patriarch of the Church of the East from 741 to 751
- [Aba Andam](/source/Aba_Andam), Ghanaian physicist
- [Johnny Aba](/source/Johnny_Aba) (born 1956), a Papua New Guinean boxer

## Places

### Africa

For dioceses, see [Religion and mythology](#Religion_and_mythology).

- [Aba, Nigeria](/source/Aba,_Nigeria) - [Aba River (Nigeria)](/source/Aba_River_(Nigeria))
- [Aba Island](/source/Aba_Island), on Sudan's White Nile river
- [Aba, Democratic Republic of the Congo](/source/Aba,_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo)

### Asia

- [Aba (Russia)](/source/Aba_(Russia)), a river
- [Aba, Okayama](/source/Aba,_Okayama), Japan
- [Aba Prefecture](/source/Ngawa_Tibetan_and_Qiang_Autonomous_Prefecture), Sichuan, China - [Aba County](/source/Aba_County) - [Aba, Sichuan](/source/Aba,_Sichuan)
- [Upu](/source/Upu) (also transliterated *Aba*), a historic region around Damascus

### Europe

- [Aba, Hungary](/source/Aba,_Hungary)

## Religion and mythology

- [Aba (mythology)](/source/Aba_(mythology)), Hellenic Thracian naiad nymph
- [Anglican Province of Aba](/source/Anglican_Province_of_Aba), Nigeria
- [Roman Catholic Diocese of Aba](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Aba), Nigeria
- Aba, the Great Spirit of [Choctaw mythology](/source/Choctaw_mythology#Ancient_religion)

## Other uses

- [Aba (*Dune*)](/source/Aba_(Dune)), a robe in the fictional *Dune* universe
- [*Aba* (film)](/source/Aba_(film)), a 2008 Sri Lanka film
- [Aba Women's War](/source/Aba_Women's_War), period of unrest in colonial Nigeria
- A short form of [Abaya](/source/Abaya), a middle eastern robe
- Alternative name for [Bisht](/source/Bisht_(clothing)), a men's cloak worn in Arab countries
- [Applied behavioral analysis](/source/Applied_behavioral_analysis)
- [MV *Aba* (1918)](/source/MV_Aba_(1918)) an early passenger motor vessel and World War II hospital ship, in service 1921-47

## See also

- [Abaá](/source/Aba%C3%A1), a Fang longhouse
- [Abba (disambiguation)](/source/Abba_(disambiguation))
- [Abas (disambiguation)](/source/Abas_(disambiguation))
- [Ab (Semitic)](/source/Ab_(Semitic)), "father" in Semitic languages
- [ABA (disambiguation)](/source/ABA_(disambiguation))

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