different between nabe vs nabk

English

Etymology

Clipping of neighborhood; compare hood. In attributive use, attested since 1922; in noun sense “neighborhood”, since 1942; in noun sense “neighborhood theater”, since 1933, originally in New York City.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne?b/
• Rhymes: -e?b

Noun

nabe (plural nabes)

1. Neighborhood.
   • 1922, Denver Post 2 Dec. 10/8 (head & text):

     Cagers Will Attend ‘Nabe’ Gym Smoker.

     Practically every basketball player in the city has promised to attend the benefit smoker at the Neighborhood House gym, Tenth and Galapago, Monday night.

   • 1938, Tommy Dorsey and George D. Lottman, “Love in Swingtime“ (syndicated serial) The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 9 Aug. 12/2 and 12/3:

     “Biggest flopperoo of year, so far,” wrote Green “was the highly touted preeming of Biff Brown’s band at the Ritz, nabe dancery near Bridgeport.” …

     Glossary of Swing Words in this Chapter. … Nabe dancery: Neighborhood ballroom.

2. (frequently in the plural) Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema.
   • 1970, New Yorker:

     They picked an aging star, slapped together a moldy script, and sent the result out to the nabes.

Usage notes

In “neighborhood theater” sense, frequently “the nabes”, particularly used by Variety (NYC theater magazine), but also more widely.

In “neighborhood” sense, particularly New York City, but used throughout the US. Popular industry term, notably in Billboard (NYC music industry) in 1940s–1960s, but in 1970s and 1980s primarily confined to Brooklyn, NYC. Increased in popularity and became widespread from the 1990s, presumably as a less marked alternative to hood (“neighborhood, particularly poor black”).

References

• “Nabe (a neighborhood)”, Barry Popik, The Big Apple, August 21, 2012
• “nabe”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Bane, Bean, Bena, bane, bean

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese ?(??) (nabe, “pot”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nabe]
• Hyphenation: na?bé

Noun

nabe (first-person possessive nabeku, second-person possessive nabemu, third-person possessive nabenya)

1. a broad-bottomed pot or pan.

   Hypernyms: panci, wadah

2. a dish where everything is cooked together in a nabe.

Further reading

• “nabe” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

nabe

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French arbre (“tree”).

Noun

nabe

1. tree

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• nabak, nabq, nubk, nebeck, nebbuk, nebak

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (nabq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?næb(?)k/

Noun

nabk (plural nabks)

1. Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
   • 1870, Christian Henry Bateman (editor), The Bible class magazine (volume 10, page 61)

     Now we passed through a grove of palms, with their long bare stems and their feathery tufts lying motionless in the air; now through a forest of acacias and nabks; now along the edge of a deep canal, and then through fields of greenest corn […]

2. The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.

Anagrams

• Bank, Knab, bank, knab