աբբայություն

Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

աբբա (abba) +‎ -ություն (-utʻyun)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

աբբայություն (abbayutʻyun)

  1. abbey (monastery headed by an abbot)
  2. abbey (the building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns)
  3. abbacy, abbotcy, abbotship

Declension edit

Further reading edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “աբբայութիւն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy