See also: abuna, abuną, and Abunã

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From Portuguese Abunã.

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Abuna (uncountable)

  1. A river in northeastern Bolivia that forms part of its border with Brazil.[1]
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Etymology 2

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From Ge'ez አቡነ (ʾäbunä, our father), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, our father), from أَبُو (ʔabū), a form of أَب (ʔab, father), and ـنَا (-nā, our).

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Abuna (plural Abunas)

  1. The title of the leader, or patriarch, of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. [First attested in the early 17th century.][2]
    • 1982, Ḥagai Erlikh, Ethiopia and Eritrea During the Scramble for Africa: A Political Biography of Rās Alulā, 1875-1897, African Studies Center, page 180:
      Two weeks later, before Abunas Pēṭros and Mātēwos, Menilek publicly swore not to deceive Mangashā nor cause him any harm.
    • 2012, Wudu Tafete Kassu, “Religion and Cold War Politics in Ethiopia”, in Philip Emil Muehlenbeck, editor, Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, →ISBN, page 143:
      Thus, four Ethiopian monks were consecrated in Cairo in June 1929 (Abunas Abreham, Petros, Mikael, Yeshaq), and the fifth (Abuna Sawiros) was consecrated in Addis Ababa in January 1930.
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  1. ^ William Morris, editor (1969 (1971 printing)), “Abuna”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 6.
  2. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Abuna”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.