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Definitions for ali baba
ˈɑ li ˈbɑ bɑ, ˈæl i ˈbæb əal·i ba·ba

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Ali Babanoun

    the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment

Wiktionary

  1. Ali Babanoun

    The fictional protagonist of , famous for his encounter with forty thieves and their treasure trove cave that opens on the command "open sesame".

  2. Ali Babanoun

    An extremely lucky person, especially one who acquires a large fortune by luck or by chance.

  3. Ali Babanoun

    An Iraqi.

Wikipedia

  1. ali baba

    "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (Arabic: علي بابا والأربعون لصا) is a folk tale from the One Thousand and One Nights. It was added to the collection in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab. As one of the most popular Arabian Nights tales, it has been widely retold and performed in many media across the world, especially for children (for whom the more violent aspects of the story are often suppressed). In the original version, Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا ʿAlī Bābā) is a poor woodcutter and an honest person who discovers the secret of a thieves' den, and enters with the magic phrase "open sesame". The thieves try to kill Ali Baba, but Ali Baba's faithful slave-girl foils their plots. Ali Baba's son marries her and Ali Baba keeps the secret of the treasure.

Wikidata

  1. Ali Baba

    Ali Baba is a character from medieval Arabic literature. He is described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. This story has been used as a popular story pantomime plot such as in the pantomime/musical Chu Chin Chow. Like many other folk tales frequently adapted for children, the original tale is darker and more violent than the more familiar bowdlerised versions. Popular perception of Ali Baba, and the way he is treated in popular media, sometimes implies that he was the leader of the "forty thieves"; in the story he is actually an honest man whom fortune enables to take advantage of the thieves' robberies.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Ali Baba

    . See Baba, Ali.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ali baba in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ali baba in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of ali baba in a Sentence

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    Ali Baba destroyed a dream!!!


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