Jaba is a word that has many different meanings in Latin America. Cuba is a bag made with vegetable fibers used for storing jars. Bag or backpack of the beggar. Backpack, bag. In Venezuela it is synonymous with poverty, misery, inopia (be in crate). It is also the name given to a jack-o'-lantern. In Chile is mouth nose or snout. Also a protective barrier of wood in the water currents: trincho.
