tebaa

Named after the city of Thebes in Upper Egypt, from Ancient Greek Θῆβαι (Thêbai). Doublet of Tebo.

• IPA^(key): [teˈbaa]
• Rhymes: -aa
• Hyphenation: te‧ba‧a

tebaa (accusative singular tebaan, plural tebaaj, accusative plural tebaajn)

1. Thebaic (of or relating to opium)

From Ottoman Turkish تبعه‎ (teba'a), from Arabic تَبَعَة‎ (tabaʕa), plural of تَابِع‎ (tābiʕ).

tebaa (definite accusative tebaayı, plural tebaalar)

1. subject; subjects (person or people ruled over)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تبعه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 488
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN