Abbaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæb.ə/, /æˈbɑ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈæb.ə/, /æˈbɑ/
• 韻: -æbə

名詞

abba (plural abbas)

1. (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.

   Coordinate term: amma

   • 2012, The Book of the Elders: Sayings of the Desert Fathers, →ISBN, page 135:

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

語源 2

Variant forms.

名詞

abba (plural abbas)

1. Alternative form of aba (Middle Eastern garment).
   • 1836, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Landscape Illustrations of the Bible:

     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.

   • 1840, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin Review - Parts 1-2, page 420:

     Around their waist, instead of a shawl, they wear a girdle fastened with monstrous silver clasps which may be ornamented, according to the owner's taste, with jewels and in which they stick not only their Koordish dagger, but a pair of great brass or silver-knobbed pistols; from this, too, hang sundry powder-horns and shot-cases, cartridge-boxes, &c. ; and over all they cast a sort of cloak, or abba, of camel's hair, white or black, or striped white brown and black, clasped on the breast, and floating picturesquely behind.

   • 2014, Robert Richardson, Travels along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent, →ISBN, page 284:

     Conceiving that he had some solid reason for his refusal, which he could not with propriety disclose in presence of Omar Effendi, I did not urge him to accompany me; but laying aside my white burnous, which I had hitherto worn after the fashion of Cairo, put on a black abba of the Capo Verde which was brought me by as black a Hercules, of whom the interpreter remarked that there was only one person in Jerusalem, and that too a fellow-servant, who was piu diavolo che lui, more devil than he.

参照

アナグラム

• baba, AABB, Baba, ba-ba

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈab.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈab.ba]

名詞

abba m (indeclinable)

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) father

   Synonym: pater

2. abbot

派生した語

• → Italian: abba
• → Middle English: abba
  • English: abba
• → Norwegian: abba
• → Old Frisian: abba

参照

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “abba”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.