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Abba is a form of ab, meaning "father" in many Semitic languages. It is used as a given name, but was also used as a title or honorific for religious scholars or leaders. [ 1 ] ( The word abbot has the same root.)
The exact meaning of the element ab (אב) or abi (אבי) in Hebrew personal names (such as Ab-ram, Ab-i-ram, Ah-ab, Jo-ab) is a matter of dispute. The identity of the -i- with the first person pronominal suffix (as in Adona -i), changing "father" to "my father", is uncertain; it might also be simply a connecting vowel.
There is an Arabian tribe of the same name, the Banu Abbas. [2] The word 'Abbas' is also used as part of a place name (for example, the English villages of Compton Abbas and Milton Abbas). The name usually relates to land previously owned by an abbess (the head of an abbey of nuns). [3] Notable people with the name include:
Abba is a surname of various origins. Most commonly, it is an Italian surname. [1] It also existed in Semitic languages, relating to Abraham or with its literal meaning of "father", [2] [3] and in English, as an occupational surname taken by people employed in abbeys. [4] Notable people with the surname include: Bérangère Abba (born 1976 ...
Abbas (name), list of people with the name, including: Abbas ibn Ali (645–680), popularly known as Hazrat-e-Abbas , the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (the first imam in Shia Islam) Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (567–653), uncle of Muhammad
Abo is an Arabic and Hebrew male name and a variant form of Abbas. [1] It is from Abbas that Abo takes its meaning of stern or somber father. [1] In Arabic, Abbas is a symbolic name referring to the lion, the king of beasts. [2] The variant used in the Russian language as a Christian name is "А́бо" (Abo). [3]
Jeelani Bano was born on 14 July 1936 in Badayun, [1] in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to Hairat Badayuni, [2] a known Urdu poet. [3] After her schooling, she enrolled for intermediate course when she married Anwar Moazzam, a poet of repute and a former head of the Department of Islamic Studies at the Osmania University and shifted to Hyderabad. [4]
ABBA [a] were a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, [3] and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music.