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Abbas

//abəz// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Arabic.
  2. 2
    A surname from Arabic.

    "There were harsher comments from Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas: "The negotiations are in a state of paralysis, and the result of Israel's intransigence and America's backpedalling is that there is no hope of negotiations on the horizon.""

  3. 3
    A placename affix, denoting previous ownership by an abbey England

    "[It] comprises the out-parishes of Holy Trinity, St. James and Peter, the parishes of Cawn, St. Rumbold Motcomb, East Stower, Stower Provost, Todbere, Melbury Abbas, Compton Abbas[.]"

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of abba form-of, plural
  2. 2
    abbot obsolete

    "Abbot (Abbas) in French Abbè [abbé] […] him that in the convent or fellowſhip of Canons hath the rule and preheminence."

Etymology

From Arabic عَبَّاس (ʕabbās, “one who frowns a lot; untamed lion”), from عَبَسَ (ʕabasa, “to frown”), the title of the eightieth sura of the Qur'an.

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