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DABB

Definition: DABB

DABB

Noun

1. A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Digital Photo Gallery: DABB
 

"Dabb (Thubb)" by MESH'AL A.
Commentary: "Dabb (Thubb) Saudi Arabia's most well known creature. this beast can survive the desert without the need of water, it condense air into liquid. it got strong jaws. if it bites your finger.. will, you probably wont be able to count up to ten :}."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Modern Translation: DABB

Language Translations for "DABB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

tornhaler (dabb lizard, spinytailed lizard). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

doornstaartagame (dabb lizard, spinytailed lizard). (various references)

   

French

  

fouette-queue (dabb lizard). (various references)

   

German

  

Dornschwanz (dabb lizard, spinytailed lizard). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ουρομάστυξ (dabb lizard, spinytailed lizard). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abbday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

lagartos de cauda de chicote (dabb lizard, spinytailed lizard). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: DABB

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Uromastyx. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: DABB

Derivations

Words beginning with "DABB": dabbed, dabber, dabbers, dabbing, dabble, dabbled, dabbler, dabblers, dabbles, dabbling, dabblings. (additional references)

Words containing "DABB": bedabble, bedabbled, bedabbles, bedabbling. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DABB"

Words ending with "abb": Abb. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DABB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-d"

-1 letter: bad, dab.

-2 letters: ab, ad, ba.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d"
 

+2 letters: babied, barbed, bedaub, cabbed, dabbed, dabber, dabble, gabbed, jabbed, nabbed, sabbed, tabbed.

 

+3 letters: babbled, bandbox, bedaubs, blabbed, bombard, crabbed, dabbers, dabbing, dabbled, dabbler, dabbles, drabbed, drabber, drabbet, drabble, gabbard, gabbled, grabbed, rabbled, ribband, scabbed, slabbed, stabbed, swabbed, tabbied, wabbled.

 

+4 letters: absorbed, babyhood, backbend, barbered, bedabble, bedaubed, beddable, beebread, bendable, biddable, biddably, bindable, birdbath, bombards, bombload, bondable, boxboard, brabbled, brambled, breadbox, browband, cabbaged, dabblers, dabbling, drabbest, drabbets, drabbing, drabbled, drabbles, gabbards, gabbroid, grabbled, jabbered, rabbeted, rabbited, rehabbed, ribbands, scabbard, scabbled, unbarbed, yabbered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Digital Art
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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