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Abba

/æˈbɑ/

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.

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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.

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fathernoun	A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
aramaicnoun	A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
almanoun	An Egyptian female singer or dancing girl employed for entertainment or as a professional mourner.
marinoun	A Volga-Finnic people in the Volga region.
journeynoun	A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
abunoun	Mount Abu, the highest mountain in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
abanoun	A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
arvandnoun	—
ebannoun	—
rabbnoun	A title used for God.
patriarchnoun	(biblical) A male leader of a family, tribe or ethnic group, especially one of the twelve sons of Jacob (considered to have created the twelve tribes of Israel) or (in plural) Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
abrahamnoun	(Abrahamism) A prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas; a Semitic patriarch son of Terah who practiced monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac by Sarah and the Arab patriarch Ishmael by Hagar.
lordnoun	A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one
achabnoun	(possibly dated, now less commonly used by native speakers) Alternative form of Ahab. [A king of Israel, mentioned in the Bible.]
abiatharnoun	(biblical) In the Old Testament, a Hebrew high priest during the reign of King David.
rabbinoun	A Jew who is the leader or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation.
oba.noun	Abbreviation of Obadiah. [(biblical) A book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh.]
rebbinoun	Alternative form of rebbe. [(Judaism) The spiritual leader of a Hasidic Jewish community.]
abrahamicnoun	(of a religion) Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham.
gabbainoun	(Judaism) An assistant in a synagogue