Also 8 yabou, 9 yabu. [Hindustani = Persian [Persian].] One of a breed of large ponies or small stout horses in Afghanistan, Persia, and adjacent countries.
1753. Hanway, Trav. (1762), II. XIV. vii. 367, note. There are in the highland country of Kandahar and Cabul a small kind of horses called yabous, which are very serviceable.
1831. Lit. Souvenir, 153. What in England would have been termed a capital punch pony;—in Persia, a good stout yaboo.
1880. in Ld. Roberts, 41 Years in India, lxi. (1897), II. 353. Yabus 1,592, mules and ponies 5,926.
