Definitions for abbas

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abbas Ab·ba

Spelling: [ah-bah]

IPA: /ˈɑ bɑ/

Abbas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in abbas (aabbs).

Definitions for abbas

noun

1. a female day name for Thursday. See under day name.
2. a title of reverence for bishops and patriarchs in the Coptic, Ethiopian Christian, and Syriac churches.
3. New Testament. an Aramaic word for father, used by Jesus and Paul to address God in a relation of personal intimacy.
4. a coarse, felted fabric woven of camel's or goat's hair.
5. a loose, sleeveless outer garment made of this fabric or of silk, worn by Arabs.
6. (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)

Origin of abbas

From the Aramaic word abbā father

Examples for abbas

abbas has been committed—quite unsuccessfully, but nevertheless committed—to nonviolence.

"It may be the cavalier who led the assault," said abbas Khan.

In the Persian tongue, abbas signifieth “the father of the people.”

As President abbas said, the table has all the options on it, yes, but almost none of them are good.

"The difficulty, then, lies with the Queen and abbas Khan," said the general.

So here we are with abbas being the only one of three parties to this conflict still fighting for a two-state solution.

We need not say that abbas Khan and Zra were to accompany her.

abbas al-Saadi is a soldier and by rights he should be stationed near Tikrit, where his unit is involved fighting ISIS.

When abbas began talks last month to form a unity government with Hamas, the Israelis saw the move as a provocation.

There was no change whatever in the situation of abbas Khan and Zra.