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abba

See also: Abba and abba-

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek, from Aramaic אבא‎/ܐܒܐ‎ (ʼabbāʼ, “father”); see abbot.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

abba (plural abbas)

  1. (Christianity, Judaism) Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.[1]
    • 2012, The Book of the Elders: Sayings of the Desert Fathers, →ISBN, page 135:
      The abba of the coenobion went to him and told him about the brother who had slipped up.

Etymology 2Edit

Variant forms.

NounEdit

abba (plural abbas)

  1. Alternative form of aba
    • 1836, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Landscape Illustrations of the Bible:
      The rich turbans and flowing robes of the respectable merchants are finely contrasted with the rude sheepskin covering of the mountaineer, and the dark abba of the wandering Arab.
    • 1840, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin Review - Parts 1-2, page 420:
      Around their waist, instead of a shawl, they wear a girdle fastened with monstrous silver clasps which may be ornamented, according to the owner's taste, with jewels and in which they stick not only their Koordish dagger, but a pair of great brass or silver-knobbed pistols; from this, too, hang sundry powder-horns and shot-cases, cartridge-boxes, &c. ; and over all they cast a sort of cloak, or abba, of camel's hair, white or black, or striped white brown and black, clasped on the breast, and floating picturesquely behind.
    • 2014, Robert Richardson, Travels along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent, →ISBN, page 284:
      Conceiving that he had some solid reason for his refusal, which he could not with propriety disclose in presence of Omar Effendi, I did not urge him to accompany me; but laying aside my white burnous, which I had hitherto worn after the fashion of Cairo, put on a black abba of the Capo Verde which was brought me by as black a Hercules, of whom the interpreter remarked that there was only one person in Jerusalem, and that too a fellow-servant, who was piu diavolo che lui, more devil than he.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], →ISBN), page 1

AnagramsEdit

AfarEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔab-, from a nursery word. Cognates include Somali aabo and Hebrew אבא‎ (’abā’).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ʌbˈbʌ/
  • Hyphenation: ab‧ba

NounEdit

abbá m (plural abbobtí f or abboobí f)

  1. father
  2. chief
  3. director

DeclensionEdit

Declension of abbá
absolutive abbá
predicative abbá
subjective abbí
genitive abbí

Coordinate termsEdit

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “abba”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Enid M. Parker (2006) English-Afar dictionary, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page vi
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 113

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

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PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

abba (present abba, present participle abbaende, past participle geabba)

  1. (transitive) to carry on one's back

CorsicanEdit

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NounEdit

abba f

  1. Alternative form of apa

GothicEdit

RomanizationEdit

abba

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌱𐌱𐌰

HungarianEdit

Pronominal adverbs from case suffixes (cf. postpositions)
case suffix who? what? this that he/she
(it)*
v. pr. c.
nom. – ki mi ez az ő* / Ø
az / Ø		 – –
acc. -t / -ot /
-at / -et / -öt		 kit mit ezt azt őt* / Ø
azt / Ø		 – c1
c2
dat. -nak / -nek kinek minek ennek annak neki neki- c
ins. -val / -vel kivel mivel ezzel/
evvel		 azzal/
avval		 vele (vele-) c
c-f. -ért kiért miért ezért azért érte – c
tra. -vá / -vé kivé mivé ezzé azzá – – c
ter. -ig – meddig eddig addig – – c
e-f. -ként (kiként) (miként) ekként akként – – c
e-m. -ul / -ül – – – – – – c
ine. -ban / -ben kiben miben ebben abban benne – c
sup. -n/-on/-en/-ön kin min ezen azon rajta (rajta-) c
ade. -nál / -nél kinél minél ennél annál nála – c
ill. -ba / -be kibe mibe ebbe abba bele bele- c
sub. -ra / -re kire mire erre arra rá rá- c
all. -hoz/-hez/-höz kihez mihez ehhez ahhoz hozzá hozzá- c
el. -ból / -ből kiből miből ebből abból belőle – c
del. -ról / -ről kiről miről erről arról róla – c
abl. -tól / -től kitől mitől ettől attól tőle – c
*: Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be
construed likewise. – Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All »

EtymologyEdit

az (“that”) +‎ -ba (“into”). The z of the demonstrative pronoun assimilates with the -b of the suffix.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒbːɒ]
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  • Hyphenation: ab‧ba

PronounEdit

abba

  1. illative singular of az
    Abba a dobozba rakd a ruhákat. ― Put the clothes into that box.

Usage notesEdit

It points to the inside of an object that is farther away from the speaker. Its opposite pair is ebbe which points to the inside of an object close to the speaker.

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from Latin abba, from Ancient Greek ἀββα (abba), from Aramaic אבא‎/ܐܒܐ‎ (ʼabbāʼ, “father”). Doublet of abate.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈab.ba/
  • Rhymes: -abba
  • Hyphenation: àb‧ba

NounEdit

abba m (uncountable)

  1. (Christianity, Judaism) abba

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • abba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀββα (abba), from Aramaic אבא‎/ܐܒܐ‎ (ʼabbāʼ, “father”), whence also Late Latin abbās.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

abba m (indeclinable)

  1. father
    Synonym: pater

DescendantsEdit

  • → Italian: abba
  • Norwegian Bokmål: abba

ReferencesEdit

  • abba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • abba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • abba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

MarshalleseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Japanese はっぱ (発破, happa).

PronunciationEdit

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [ɑppˠɑ], (enunciated) [ɑpˠ pˠɑ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /ɰæpˠpˠæɰ/
  • Bender phonemes: {habbah}

NounEdit

abba (construct form abbain)

  1. (alienable) dynamite

SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin abba (“father”), from Ancient Greek ἀββα (abba, “father, title of respect given to abbots”), from Aramaic אבא‎ (’abbā, “father, teacher, ancestor, leader”), from Proto-Semitic *ʔabw- (“father”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔab-, ultimately an onomatopoeic nursery word. Doublet of abbed and abbé.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

abba

  1. (Christianity, Judaism) Abba or Father (when speaking directly with God through prayer)
    • (Can we date this quote?) The Holy Bible: Mark 14,36:
      han sa: «Abba, Far! Alt er mulig for deg …»
      he said, "Abba, Father!" Everything is possible for you ... »
    • (Can we date this quote?) The Holy Bible: Rom 8,15:
      dere har fått Ånden som gir rett til å være Guds barn, den som gjør at vi roper: «Abba, Far!»
      you have received the Spirit who gives the right to be children of God, the one who causes us to cry out, 'Abba, Father!'
    • 1817, Hans Nielsen Hauge, Om Religiøse Følelser og deres Værd, page 9:
      [vårt hjerte] siger et Abba kjære fader
      [our heart] says an Abba dear father
    • 1830-1837, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter II,3, page 336:
      ja det er sandt som kammerherren siger. Abba! fader!
      yes it is true as the chamberlain says. Abba! father!

ReferencesEdit

  • “abba” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “abba” in Store norske leksikon

AnagramsEdit

NyungaEdit

InterjectionEdit

abba

  1. g'day

ReferencesEdit

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Old FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin abba.

NounEdit

abba m

  1. abbot

InflectionEdit

Declension of abba (masculine a-stem)
case singular plural
nominative abba abbaar, abbaa
accusative abba abbaar, abbaa
genitive abbaes abbaa
dative abbae abbaum, abbaem

SardinianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. Compare Romanian apă.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

abba f (plural abbas)

  1. water
  2. (by extension) rain
    Synonym: proja
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