abbas

• IPA^(key): /abəz/

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abbas

1. plural of abba
2. (obsolete) abbot
   • 1607, Iohn Cowell, editor, The Interpreter: or Booke Containing the Signification of Words‎^[1], Cambridge: Iohn Legate, page 18:

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

• AABBs, babas

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.

abbas

1. (Catholicism) abbot

• “abbas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Ancient Greek ἀββα, ἀββᾶς (abba, abbâs, “father or abbot”), from Aramaic אבא (’abbā, “father”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈab.baːs/, [ˈäbːäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈab.bas/, [ˈäbːäs]

abbās m (genitive abbātis, feminine abbātissa); third declension

1. an abbot

Third-declension noun.

• abbātissa (“abbess/female abbot”)

• abbātia (“abbey”)
• abbātissa (“abbess/female abbot”)
• abbātīzō

Borrowings

• “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.