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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Abba

/(ăb"bȧ)/ · Ab·ba · IPA /ˈæb.ə/
01 n. Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.
  1. 1.
    Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.