What is "abaza"

a. Of or relating to the Abaza people or their language. (Mid 19^th century.) n. A member of the race of humans living in northwest Caucasus. (Early 19^th century.) n. A Northwest Caucasian language spoken in the Russian autonomous republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, in the Caucasus Mountains, as well as in Turkey. (Mid 19^th century.)(R:SOED5: page=2)

Abaza may refer to:

Abaza (; Khakas: ) is a town in the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located on the Abakan River south of Abakan. Population:

Abaza is a surname.

In Russian, the surname "" (Abaza) was first recorded among noble families in 1843. It derives from Turkish abaza, meaning stupid, which was originally adopted as a nickname and then morphed into a surname. However, in a Circassian context, the Abazin people's "self-designation" Abaza is separate from this Russian/Turkish origin. The word is also the name of this people's language and of an Egyptian noble family from the same origin.

The following people share this surname:

• Abaza clan, Egypt's largest aristocratic family, of Abazin Cicassian origins
• Alexander Abaza (1821–1895), Russian finance minister
• Alexey Abaza, Russian admiral
• Arkady Abaza (1843–1915), Russian composer
• Fekry Abaza (1896–1979), Egyptian journalist and political activist
• Jan Abaza (b. 1995), American tennis player
• Rushdy Abaza (1926–1980), Egyptian actor
• Tharwat Abaza (1927–2002), Egyptian journalist and novelist
• Yanal Abaza (b. 1976), retired Syrian association football player

Abaza is an Egyptian television series that aired for one season on Sada Elbalad TV in 2014. Abaza is set in a fictitious world where humans and monsters live next to each other in harmony. The monsters in Abaza are not evil and are portrayed in a caricatured manner.

The series follows the adventures of protagonist Abaza and his friends. Abaza is a lovable but lazy monster who experiences a change in his life when a beautiful girl enters his world, and he must prove himself in order to win her heart. He then embarks on an adventure to be the greatest inventor in the world, during which he makes quite a lot of inventions, some of them work and others do not.

In 2014 the powerful Egyptian Abaza family sued Sada Elbalad TV for the creation of this program and it was forced off the air through a settlement agreement.