noun
hubba
noun
1
A tiny unit of weight or measure, historically used in South Asian and Middle Eastern trade for grains or seeds.
"The old trader still weighed spices in hubbas and grains rather than metric units."
2
The smallest conceivable amount of something; a jot or scrap.
"He didn't care a hubba for what the critics said."
How to Use Hubba
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn old word for a very small unit of weight, or, loosely, the tiniest scrap of anything.
When to use it
Rare and archaic outside specialist or historical writing — most readers will never encounter it in everyday text.
Word Forms
hubbas plural
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Etymology
Traced back through Hindustani and Persian to Arabic habba, meaning a single grain or seed — the same idea behind describing a tiny quantity as "not a grain's worth."