Saba (disambiguation)

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Saba may refer to:

People (real & fictional)

• Saba (pronounced Sava) or Sabbas the Goth, a 4th-century martyr
• Abraham Saba, a 15th-century Jewish rabbi
• Umberto Saba, a 20th-century Italian poet and novelist
• Abolhasan Saba, 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-Hamilton, a TV wildlife presenter

Places

• Saba, an island in the Netherlands Antilles
  • Saba University School of Medicine, located on the island of Saba
• Saba, another name for Sheba, an ancient kingdom in Yemen
• Saba, Brunei, a Water village, or mukim in Brunei

Businesses & organizations

• Saba (news), official Yemeni government news agency
• Saba (car), an Iranian car model (based on the Kia Pride design)
• Saba Software Inc, a provider of human capital management software and services, and also the name of the company's line of enterprise software
• SABA, a brand name for Thomson TV's

Religion

• Saba (Zen), grains of rice set aside from one's meal for the benefit of hungry ghosts at a Zen monastery

Other

• Saba (sura), a chapter of the Qur'an
• Saba, a syrup made from grape must
• Saba, a maqam in Arabic music and makam in Turkish music
• Saba, the name of a talking kilij wielded by the fictional Tommy Oliver, the first White Ranger
• Saba nut, another name for Pachira aquatica
• "Saba," a ska song by Mephiskapheles
• "Saba the Bird", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel

[edit] See also

• Sabbas