abbas
See also: Abbas
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abəz/
Audio (CA) (file)
Noun
abbas
- plural of abba
Anagrams
- AABBs, babas
Indonesian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin abbas (“abbot”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς (abbâs), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”), from Proto-Semitic *ʾab- (“father”). Doublet of aba and abu.
Noun
abbas
- (Catholicism) abbot
Related terms
- abi
Further reading
- “abbas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀββα, ἀββᾶς (abba, abbâs, “father or abbot”), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈab.baːs/, [ˈäbːäːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈab.bas/, [ˈäbːäs]
Noun
abbās m (genitive abbātis, feminine abbātissa); third declension
- an abbot
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | abbās | abbātēs |
| Genitive | abbātis | abbātum |
| Dative | abbātī | abbātibus |
| Accusative | abbātem | abbātēs |
| Ablative | abbāte | abbātibus |
| Vocative | abbās | abbātēs |
Related terms
- abbātia
- abbātissa
- abbātīzō
Descendants
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: abate (see there for further descendants)
- Neapolitan: abbate
- Padanian:
- Piedmontese: abà
- Romagnol: abêt
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: abat
- Occitan: abat
- West Iberian
- Asturian: abá
- Old Portuguese: abade
- Galician: abade
- Portuguese: abade
- Old Spanish: abad, abbad
- Spanish: abad (see there for further descendants)
- Borrowings
- → Crimean Tatar: abbat
- → Danish: abbed
- → Finnish: apotti
- → Georgian: აბატი (abaṭi)
- → Indonesian: abbas
- → Latvian: abats
- → Lithuanian: abatas
- → Middle Dutch: abbet
- Dutch: abt
- Afrikaans: ab
- Dutch: abt
- → Old English: abbat, abbod
- Middle English: abbot, abbod
- English: abbot
- Gullah: aabut
- English: abbot
- → Old Norse: ábóti
- Icelandic: ábóti
- Norwegian: abbed
- Middle English: abbot, abbod
- → Old French: abbet (see there for further descendants)
- → Old High German: abbāt
- Middle High German: abbāt
- German: Abt
- Luxembourgish: Abt
- → Hungarian: apát
- → Czech: opat
- → Polish: opat
- → Macedonian: опат (opat)
- → Serbo-Croatian: опат
- → Slovak: opát
- → Slovene: opat
- → Ukrainian: опат (opat)
- Middle High German: abbāt
- → Old Irish: ap (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Norse: abbati
- Faroese: abbati
- → Old Swedish: abbot
- Swedish: abbot
- → Proto-Brythonic: *abad
- Breton: abad
- Cornish: abas
- Middle Welsh: abat
- Welsh: abad
- → West Frisian: abt
References
- “abbas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abbas 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)
- abbas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette