different between nabe vs nabs

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

Verb

nabs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nab

Etymology

Clipping of Nabisco.

Noun

nabs

1. A single-serving package of crackers, usually filled with peanut butter. Snack crackers.
   • 2005, Mark Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking, University Press of Kentucky, page 74:

     "Others walked to small stores to buy a pack of Nabs cheese crackers, ..."

   • 2014, Marion Eugene Williams, A Cop's Dilemma, Xlibris Corporation, page 92:

     "I'll give you ten bucks to use your telephone and for a pack of nabs and a cold drink."

References

• 2010. Duffin-Ward, Maureen. Suddenly Southern: A Yankee's Guide to Living in Dixie, page 44.

Anagrams

• BNAs, Bans, bans