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An araba (from tr, araba "araba."
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. MICRA, Inc. 28 Feb. 2009.) (also ''arba'' or ''aroba'') is a
carriage A carriage is a private four-wheeled vehicle for people and is most commonly horse-drawn. Second-hand private carriages were common public transport, the equivalent of modern cars used as taxis. Carriage suspensions are by leather strapping an ...
(such as a
cabriolet A convertible or cabriolet () is a passenger car that can be driven with or without a roof in place. The methods of retracting and storing the roof vary among eras and manufacturers. A convertible car's design allows an open-air driving expe ...
or
coach Coach may refer to: Guidance/instruction * Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities * Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process ** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers Transportation * Co ...
),
wagon A wagon or waggon is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans, used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people. Wagons are immediately distinguished from ...
or
cart A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people. It is different from the flatbed tr ...
drawn by horses or oxen, used in
Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
and neighboring countries. It is usually heavy and without springs (when it has springs it is called yaylı, shorter form of "''yaylı araba''" or "araba with springs") and often covered. In modern Turkish, the word ''araba'' is used for almost any kind of wheeled device (for eg. el arabası = hand car/trolley). It is also used for a
car A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods. The year 1886 is regarded as ...
(automobile).


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Araba Clipart.
Educational Technology Clearinghouse, University of South Florida. Drawing.
Araba - Open Dictionary.BIGpedia - Araba - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online.
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