Saba (disambiguation)
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Saba is a common female name in Persia, Ethiopia
and others. It is used as a male name in Georgia
. Saba or Sabbas the Goth
is a Christian saint and the name is used in his honor.
"Saba" may also refer to:
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
and others. It is used as a male name in Georgia
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
. Saba or Sabbas the Goth
Sabbas the Goth
Sabbas the Goth is a martyr and Christian saint.He was born in 334 to Christian parents in a village in the Buzău river valley and lived in what is now the Wallachia region in Romania...
is a Christian saint and the name is used in his honor.
"Saba" may also refer to:
People
- The SabaeansSabaeansThe Sabaeans or Sabeans were an ancient people speaking an Old South Arabian language who lived in what is today Yemen, in the south west of the Arabian Peninsula.Some scholars suggest a link between the Sabaeans and the Biblical land of Sheba....
, an ancient people who lived in modern-day Yemen - Saba or Sabbas the GothSabbas the GothSabbas the Goth is a martyr and Christian saint.He was born in 334 to Christian parents in a village in the Buzău river valley and lived in what is now the Wallachia region in Romania...
, a 4th-century martyr - Saba AnglanaSaba AnglanaSaba Anglana is a Somali-Italian actress and international singer.-Biography:Saba was born in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, during the regime of General Mohamed Siad Barre...
, Somali-Italian singer and actress - Abraham SabaAbraham SabaAbraham Saba was a preacher in Castile who became a pupil of Isaac de Leon. At the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain he took refuge in Portugal, where he met with further misfortune; for scarcely had he settled in Oporto when King Manuel I of Portugal ordered all Jews to be expelled...
, a 15th-century rabbi - Umberto SabaUmberto SabaUmberto Poli was an Italian poet and novelist, born in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the nom de plume "Saba" in 1910, and his name was officially changed to Umberto Saba in 1928. From 1919 he was the...
, a 20th-century Italian poet and novelist - Abolhasan SabaAbolhasan SabaAbol Hasan Sabā , was a renowned Iranian musician, composer, violinist, and setar player.-Biography:He was born in Tehran to Abul Qasim Khan Kamal ol-Saltaneh, son of Mohammad Jafar Khan Sadr ol-Hekma, son of Mahmud Khan Kashi Malak ol-Shoara Sadr ol-Shoara Saba ol-Shoara, son of Mohammad Hossain...
, a 20th-century Iranian composer and teacher of Persian traditional music - Saba Sebatyne, a Jedi Master in the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe
- Saba Douglas-HamiltonSaba Douglas-HamiltonSaba Iassa Douglas-Hamilton is a Kenyan wildlife conservationist and television presenter.-Early life:Born on a farm near Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, she is the daughter of zoologist, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Oria Douglas-Hamilton née Rocco. Saba means "seven" in Swahili...
, a TV wildlife presenter
Places
- Saba, an island of the NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
in the Caribbean.- Saba University School of MedicineSaba University School of MedicineSaba University School of Medicine is a for-profit medical school located in The Bottom, Saba, in the Caribbean. Saba confers upon its graduates the Doctor of Medicine degree...
, located on the island of Saba
- Saba University School of Medicine
- Saba, another name for ShebaShebaSheba was a kingdom mentioned in the Jewish scriptures and the Qur'an...
, an ancient kingdom in the Horn of Africa or Yemen - Saba, Brunei, a Water village, or mukim in BruneiBruneiBrunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia...
- Mar SabaMar SabaThe Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, known in Arabic as Mar Saba , is a Greek Orthodox monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in the West Bank east of Bethlehem. The traditional date for the founding of the monastery by Saint Sabas of Cappadocia is the year 483 and today houses around 20...
, The Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified
Businesses & organizations
- Saba News AgencySaba News AgencyThe Saba News Agency also known as the Yemen News Agency, is the official state news agency of Yemen. It was founded on 16 November 1970 and is headquartered in the capital Sana'a....
, official YemenYemenThe Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
i government news agency - Saba (car), an Iranian car model (based on the KiaKia MotorsKia Motors , headquartered in Seoul, is South Korea's second-largest automobile manufacturer, following the Hyundai Motor Company, with sales of over 1.4 million vehicles in 2010...
Pride design) - Saba Software IncSaba SoftwareSaba enables organizations to build a transformative workplace that leverages the advent of social networking in business and the ubiquity of mobile to empower an organization’s most mission-critical assets – its people...
, a provider of human capital management software and services, and also the name of the company's line of enterprise software - SABASABAThe Schwarzwälder Apparate-Bau-Anstalt was a German manufacturer for electronic equipment founded in 1923 at Triberg im Schwarzwald , present-day Baden-Württemberg....
was a German manufacturer for electronic equipment. - Saba Agency, a full-service advertising agency located in Bakersfield, CA
- SABASABA (clothing)SABA is an Australian fashion brand created in Melbourne in 1965. The brand carries a contemporary label for both women's and menswear lines. SABA have taken part in such fashion events as the Mercedes Australian Fashion Week and the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival...
, an up-market clothing brand sold in AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... - SABA Aparcamientos, a Spanish company dedicated to parking management.
- SABA, the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, promotes more and safer trips by bicycle, in Sacramento, CaliforniaSacramento, CaliforniaSacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
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Religion
- Saba (Zen), grains of rice set aside from one's meal for the benefit of hungry ghostHungry ghostHungry ghost is a Western translation of Chinese , a concept in Chinese Buddhism and Chinese traditional religion representing beings who are driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic way....
s at a Zen monastery
Food
- Saba, a syrup made from grape mustMustMust is freshly pressed fruit juice that contains the skins, seeds, and stems of the fruit. The solid portion of the must is called pomace; it typically makes up 7%–23% of the total weight of the must. Making must is the first step in winemaking...
- Saba, Japanese for mackerelMackerelMackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of fish, mostly, but not exclusively, from the family Scombridae. They may be found in all tropical and temperate seas. Most live offshore in the oceanic environment but a few, like the Spanish mackerel , enter bays and can be...
, a fish often used for sushiSushiis a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice combined with other ingredients . Neta and forms of sushi presentation vary, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is shari... - Saba BananaSaba bananaSaba banana, also known as Cardaba banana, is a triploid hybrid banana cultivar originating from the Philippines. It is primarily a cooking banana though it can also be eaten raw. It is one of the most important banana varieties in Philippine cuisine....
, a type of plantain found in the Philippines
Other
- Saba (sura)Saba (sura)Surat Saba is the 34th sura of the Qur'an with 54 ayat....
, a chapter of the Qur'an - Saba nut, another name for Pachira aquaticaPachira aquaticaPachira aquatica is a tropical wetland tree of the genus Pachira, native to Central and South America where it grows in swamps. It is known by the common names Malabar chestnut, Guiana chestnut, provision tree, saba nut, Monguba , Pumpo and is commercially sold under the name money tree and money...
- Saba, an magamArabic maqamArabic maqām is the system of melodic modes used in traditional Arabic music, which is mainly melodic. The word maqam in Arabic means place, location or rank. The Arabic maqam is a melody type...
in Arabic music and makamMakamMakam In Turkish classical music, a system of melody types called makam provides a complex set of rules for composing and performance...
in Turkish music. It is either used to expressed pain (Islam) or a covenant (Judaism). - "Saba", a ska song by MephiskaphelesMephiskaphelesMephiskapheles was a third wave ska band based in New York. Originally called "Skatterbrains," their later name is a portmanteau of "ska" and "Mephistopheles", of Goethe's Faust...
- "Saba the Bird", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book BabelBabel (book)Babel is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1978, and contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings.- Radio Ethiopia :# "Notice"# "Italy"# "The Tapper Extracts"# "Grant"# "Street of the Guides"# "Rimbaud Dead"# "Sohl"...
- Saba, White Ranger's talking saber from Mighty Morphin Power RangersMighty Morphin Power RangersMighty Morphin Power Rangers is an American live-action children's television series based on the 16th installment of the Japanese Super Sentai franchise, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. Both the show and its related merchandise saw unbridled overnight success, catapulting into pop culture in mere months...
- Short-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist, a class of drugDrugA drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function. There is no single, precise definition, as there are different meanings in drug control law, government regulations, medicine, and colloquial usage.In pharmacology, a...
used as a rescue treatment for asthmaAsthmaAsthma is the common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath...
. This class includes drugs such as salbutamolSalbutamolSalbutamol or albuterol is a short-acting β2-adrenergic receptor agonist used for the relief of bronchospasm in conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is marketed as Ventolin among other brand names....
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