different between nabs vs nabk

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

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