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Definition of the noun ABANA
What does ABANA mean as a name of something?
Abana is a genus of Cicadellidae, described by Distant in 1908.
- synonym: genus Abana
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
- class: Insecta
- order: Hemiptera
- family: Cicadellidae
- members:
- species Abana arnetti
- species Abana dives
- species Abana gigas
- species Abana haupti
- species Abana horvathi
- species Abana tissa
Film
"Abana" is a film.
- country: India
- language: Sindhi Language
- starring: Sadhana Shivdasani
- released in (57 years ago)
Miscellanea
The Abana was a sailing barque wrecked at Blackpool in England on 22 December 1894.
Phrases with Abana
Phrases starting with the word Abana:
- Abana Dives
- Abana Gigas
- Abana Regia
- Abana Tissa
- Abana Haupti
- Abana Puella
- Abana Sonora
- Abana Arnetti
- Abana Drusilla
- Abana Horvathi
Phrases ending with the word Abana:
- Genus Abana
- Euxesta abana
- Sturmia Abana
- Altinote Abana
- Calobata Abana
- Ommatius Abana
- Rivellia Abana
- Cyphomyia abana
- Homoneura Abana
- Mallophora Abana
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Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Abana
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A Trip Through Bible Lands and Europe (1915)
A Trip Through Bible Lands and EuropeA Journalistic Record of a Tour Made in the Summer of 1914, Just Before the World-wide War by George Fletcher Oliver
Abana is the main glory and life-giver of Damascus. It rises in a deep pool fed by the mountains and rushes full-fledged, twenty to thirty feet wide, in a long series of water-falls. By it, not only are the gardens irrigated, the plains and orchards ...
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, and the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere (1810)
Including the Theory of Navigation ... by Thomas Keith
Thus ABana is the circumference; c the centre, and CA, CD, Chen, c'r, are all equal to each other. (D) The distance from the T centre ...
An Introduction to the theory and practice of plane and spherical trigonometry, and the orthographic and stereographic projections of the spheres, etc (1816)
by Thomas KEITH (Teacher of Mathematics.)
Thus ABanA is the circumference; c the centre, and CA, co, cb, on, or, are all equal to each other. (D) The distance from the ...
A Biblical and Theological Dictionary (1842)
by Richard Watson
Probably the Abana is a branch of the Barrady, or Chrysorrhoas, which derives its source from the foot of mount Libanus, eastward ; runs round and through Damascus, and continues its course till lost in the wilderness, four or five leagues ...
The Encyclopaedia Britannica ... (1877)
A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature ... in Thirty Volumes with New American Supplement
The Abana is the life of Damascus, and has made it perennial. By an admirable system of channels and pipes, many of them apparently of high antiquity, its waters are not only conveyed through every quarter, but into almost every house, ...
The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1902)
latest edition. A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature by Day Otis Kellogg, William Robertson Smith
The Abana is the life of Damascus, and has made it perennial. By an admirable system of channels and pipes, many of them apparently of high antiquity, its waters are not only conveyed through every quarter, but into almost every house ...
The Encyclopædia Britannica (1895)
A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, with New Maps and Original American Articles by Eminent Writers
The Abana is the life of Damascus, and has made it perennial.
A Bible Dictionary for Sunday Schools and Families (1914)
by John Cowper Granbery
Abana and Pharpar are mentioned by Naaman as rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel. (2 Kings v. 12. ) ...
Bible Dictionary (2015)
by Ballantyne, R. M.
The Abana, (or, Amana), was undoubtedly the present Barada, the Chrysorrhoas of the Greeks. It is a clear, cold, and swift mountain stream, rising in AntiLebanon, north east of Hermon, flowing south east into the plain, and near Damascus ...
Zondervan Bible Dictionary (2009)
by J. D. Douglas, C. Merrill
ABANA. (bn′, Heb. ' vnâ ). Mentioned in the Bible only in 2 Kings 5:12, this river flows through Damascus, making the city, though bordering on a desert, one of the loveliest and most fertile on earth.
The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia (2013)
by Anita Price Davis
Lake Abana and Willow Brook were natural features. An added lake — Lake Loomis— joined Lake Abana in 1888; later the two merged. In 1900 an enlargement and reconstruction made the fouracre Lake Abana into a six acre lake with two ...
The New American Encyclopaedia (1865)
A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge
ABANA, mentioned in Scripture in connection with Pharpar, as a river of Damascus. Much doubt exists as to what stream is meant. The principal river of Damascus, now known as Barrada, is supposed to be Pharpar, and probably its principal ...
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Wreck of the ABANAa three masted norwegian barque in ballast bound for Florida, USA. Driven ashore in violent storm December 1894...the captain,16 crew,one cat,one dog rescued by blackpool lifeboat comprising skipper cartmell and 15 brave rescuers...ths ships bell can be seen at st.andrews church,cleveleys..the ABANA had departed liverpool previous day..remains can still be seen off norbreck some 200 yards from sea wall.
Photo credit: 70023venus2009
The wreck of the AbanaThe Abana was sailing from Liverpool to Savannah, Georgia when she was caught in a storm in the Irish Sea, 22 December 1894. She was spotted at 3 pm drifting in a northwesterly direction with her sails torn to shreds. The crew had mistaken Blackpool Tower for a lighthouse and the ship was first spotted floundering at North Pier, and ended up drifting north and was wrecked off Little Bispham at 5 pm.
Photo credit: 70023venus2009
The mortal remains of the ABANAThe Abana was sailing from Liverpool to Savannah, Georgia when she was caught in a storm in the Irish Sea, 22 December 1894. She was spotted at 3 pm drifting in a northwesterly direction with her sails torn to shreds. The crew had mistaken Blackpool Tower for a lighthouse and the doomed ship was first spotted floundering off North Pier before drifting north and wrecked off Little Bispham at 5 pm.
Photo credit: 70023venus2009
The wreck of the Abana
The mortal remains of the ABANAVideo about Abana
ABANA Curriculum Level 1 (Tapers).
ABANA's National Curriculum. Level 1 skills - drawing tapers.
Scrabble value of A1B3A1N1A1
The value of this 5-letter word is 7 points, but it's not an accepted word in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
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