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‖ yaboo|jɑːˈbuː|
Also 8 yabou, 9 yabu.
[Hindustani = Persian yābū.]
One of a breed of large ponies or small stout horses in Afghanistan, Persia, and adjacent countries.
1753Hanway Trav. (1762) II. xiv. vii. 367 note, There are in the highland country of Kandahar and Cabul a small kind of horses called yabous, which are very serviceable. 1831Lit. Souvenir 153 What in England would have been termed a capital punch pony,—in Persia, a good stout yaboo. 1880in Ld. Roberts 41 Years in India lxi. (1897) II. 353 Yabus 1,592, mules and ponies 5,926. |