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Abba

//ˈæb.ə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A popular Swedish music group from the 1970s, one of the best-selling music artists in history.
Noun
  1. 1
    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. Judaism

    "The abba of the coenobion went to him and told him about the brother who had slipped up."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of aba (Middle Eastern garment). alt-of, alternative

    "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."

  3. 3
    Father, an honorific title given to God in the New Testament, especially used in prayers.

    "And because yee are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the spirit of his Sonne into your hearts, crying Abba, Father."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from Latin abba, from Ancient Greek ἀββα (abba), from Aramaic אבא/ܐܒܐ (ʼabbāʼ, “father”).

Etymology 4

As an initialism of Agnetha, Björn, Benny, and Anni-Frid.

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