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abba
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek, from Aramaic ????/???? (?abb??, “father”); see abbot.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æb.?/, /æ?b?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æb.?/, /æ?b?/
- Rhymes: -æb?
Noun
abba (plural abbas)
- (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.
Etymology 2
Variant forms.
Noun
abba (plural abbas)
- Alternative form of aba
References
Anagrams
- AABB, baba
Afar
Etymology
From Proto-Afroasiatic *?ab-, from a nursery word. Cognates include Somali aabo and Hebrew ???? (’ab?’).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?b?/
- Hyphenation: ab?ba
Noun
abbá m (plural abbobtí f or abboobí f)
- father
- chief
- director
Declension
References
- 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
Afrikaans
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.ba/
Verb
abba (present abba, present participle abbaende, past participle geabba)
- (transitive) to carry on one's back
Corsican
Noun
abba f
- Alternative form of apa
Gothic
Romanization
abba
- Romanization of ????????????????
Hungarian
Etymology
az (“that”) +? -ba (“into”). The z of the demonstrative pronoun assimilates with the -b of the suffix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??b??]
- Hyphenation: ab?ba
Pronoun
abba
- illative singular of az
Usage notes
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.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin abba, from Ancient Greek ???? (abba), from Aramaic ????/???? (?abb??, “father”). Doublet of abate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ab.ba/
- Rhymes: -abba
- Hyphenation: àb?ba
Noun
abba m (singular only)
- (Christianity, Judaism) abba
Related terms
- abate
References
- abba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek ???? (abba), from Aramaic ????/???? (?abb??, “father”), whence also Late Latin abb?s.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ab.ba/, [?äb?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ab.ba/, [??b??]
Noun
abba m (indeclinable)
- father
- Synonym: pater
Descendants
- ? Italian: abba
- Norwegian Bokmål: abba
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- abba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Marshallese
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ??? (??, happa).
Pronunciation
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [?pp??], (enunciated) [?p? p??]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /?æp?p?æ?/
- Bender phonemes: {habbah}
Noun
abba (construct form abbain)
- (alienable) dynamite
Synonyms
- bo?kutan?
References
- Marshallese–English Online Dictionary
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin abba (“father”), from Ancient Greek ???? (abba, “father, title of respect given to abbots”), from Aramaic ???? (’abb?, “father, teacher, ancestor, leader”), from Proto-Semitic *?abw- (“father”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *?ab-, ultimately an onomatopoeic nursery word. Doublet of abbed and abbé.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ab?a/
- Rhymes: -ab?a
- Hyphenation: ab?ba
Noun
abba
- (Christianity, Judaism) Abba or Father (when speaking directly with God through prayer)
References
- “abba” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “abba” in Store norske leksikon
Anagrams
- baba
Nyunga
Interjection
abba
- g'day
References
- 2011, Bindon, P. and Chadwick, R. (compilers and editors), A Nyoongar Wordlist: from the south-west of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum (Welshpool, WA), 2nd ed.
Old Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abba.
Noun
abba m
- abbot
Inflection
Sardinian
Etymology
From Latin aqua, from Proto-Italic *ak??, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?eh?. Compare Romanian ap?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ab.ba/
Noun
abba f (plural abbas)
- water
- (by extension) rain
- Synonym: proja
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gabba
English
Noun
gabba (countable and uncountable, plural gabbas)
- (music) Alternative spelling of gabber
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse gabba.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ap?a
Verb
gabba (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gabbaði, supine gabbað)
- to befool
Conjugation
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ab.ba/
- Rhymes: -abba
- Hyphenation: gàb?ba
Etymology 1
Variant forms.
Noun
gabba f (plural gabbe)
- Alternative form of gabbo
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
gabba
- third-person singular present indicative of gabbare
- second-person singular imperative of gabbare
Northern Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *këmpë.
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?kab?ba/
Noun
gabba
- white reindeer
Inflection
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gappon-, *gabb?n- (“to joke”), probably related to *gap?n (“to gape”). See Dutch gapen (“to gape”).
Verb
gabba
- (transitive) to mock, to make game of
Related terms
- gabb
Descendants
- Icelandic: gabba
- ? Old French: gaber
- Middle French: gaber
- French: gaber
- Middle French: gaber
References
- gabba in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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