Abana

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 1958 (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:

1. Abana Dives
2. Abana Gigas
3. Abana Regia
4. Abana Tissa
5. Abana Haupti
6. Abana Puella
7. Abana Sonora
8. Abana Arnetti
9. Abana Drusilla
10. Abana Horvathi

Phrases ending with the word Abana:

1. Genus Abana
2. Euxesta abana
3. Sturmia Abana
4. Altinote Abana
5. Calobata Abana
6. Ommatius Abana
7. Rivellia Abana
8. Cyphomyia abana
9. Homoneura Abana
10. Mallophora Abana

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Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Abana

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary (101-)

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 ...

A Trip Through Bible Lands and Europe (1915)

A 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 ...

The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot (1900)

by Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept

Ras Abana is a low rocky point, with the low range of hills before mentioned rising from it ; it is the western point of entrance to Ghubbet Hashish. Water. — Fresh ...

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 (1878)

A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature by Thomas Spencer Baynes

The Abana is the life of Damascus, and has made it perennial.

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.

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 ...

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1863 and King James Bible (2017)

by William Smith

○○ ≍ Abana Smith's (perennial, stony), one of the "rivers of Damascus s." (Sk 5:12) The Barada and the Awaj are now the chief streams of Damascus s, the former representing the Abana and the latter the Pharpars of the text.

Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Sacred geography; or, A companion to the Holy Bible ... Originally composed by Edward Wells ... Now revised and corrected; also augmented by a series of geographical excursions ... Published under the direction of the editor of Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible; intended as a fifth volume to that work (1817)

by Augustin Calmet

A A B E ABANA, stony; the name of a river of Damascus, 2 Kings, v. 12. Perhaps, the channel of this river was very rocky: or it might issue from a rock. But some think Abana is a variation of Amana, which they take for a part of Lebanon, from ...

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. ) ...

Easton's Bible Dictionary and King James Bible (2017)

by Matthew George Easton

Abana. Easton's. Stony (Heb. marg. "Amanah," perennial), the chief river e of Damascuse (Sk 5:12;). Its modern name is Barada, the Chrysorrhoas, or "golden stream," of the Greeks. It rises in a cleft of the AntiLebanon range, about 23 miles ...

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 ...

Dictionary of the Efïk Language, in Two Parts (1862)

I. Efïk and English, II. English and Efïk by Hugh Goldie

Owo emi abaiiade owo, owo enwen onyuii abana enye ntre, A man who talks of others behmd back, anotlier will talk of him in like manner. 2. To speak about a person or thing; to take concernment of. Mbana fi mfin, / km talking about you today ...

Fausset's Bible Dictionary and King James Bible (2017)

by TruthBeTold Ministry, Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset, David Brown

Abana. -. Fausset's. The chief riverf of Damascus f, the modern Barada, called by the Greeks f "the golden stream," flowing through the heartf of the cityf and supplying it with water f. The Pharpar f mentioned with it in 2K 5:12 is further from ...

A Dictionary of the Most Important Names, Objects, and Terms, Found in the Holy Scriptures (1840)

Intended Pincipally for Sunday-School Teachers and Bilbe Classes by Howard Malcolm

ABANA and PHARPAR ...

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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.

Anagram / semordnilap of ABANA

What do you get if you rearrange the letters by reversing their order?

• ANABA

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