OriginFrom Ottoman Turkish عربه (modern Turkish araba).
- historicalA 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, w”
“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”
“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. The carriage is r”
- The Kingdom of Hatra, a 2nd-century Arab kingdom located between the Roman Empire and the Parthian Empire, mostly under Parthian suzerainty, in modern-day northern Iraq.
Formsarabas(plural) · arba(alternative) · aroba(alternative)