Also aroba. [a. Arab. and Pers. arābah, a wheeled carriage.] A wheeled carriage used in the East.
1845. Thackeray, Cornh. to Cairo (1872), 620. Dragged about in little queer arobas, or painted carriages.
1882. Emma R. Pitman, Mission Life in Greece & Pal., 359. Hauling stone in creaking arabas drawn by bullocks.
