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English
Etymology 1
From Portuguese Abunã.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Abuna (uncountable)
- A river in northeastern Bolivia that forms part of its border with Brazil.[1]
Translations
river in the border between Bolivia and Brazil
Etymology 2
From Ge'ez አቡነ (ʾäbunä, “our father”), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”), from أَبُو (ʔabū), a form of أَب (ʔab, “father”), and ـنَا (-nā, “our”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Abuna (plural Abunas)
- The title of the leader, or patriarch, of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. [2]
1982, Ḥagai Erlikh, Ethiopia and Eritrea During the Scramble for Africa: A Political Biography of Rās Alulā, 1875-1897, African Studies Center, page 180:Two weeks later, before Abunas Pēṭros and Mātēwos, Menilek publicly swore not to deceive Mangashā nor cause him any harm.
2012, Wudu Tafete Kassu, “Religion and Cold War Politics in Ethiopia”, in Philip Emil Muehlenbeck, editor, Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, →ISBN, page 143:Thus, four Ethiopian monks were consecrated in Cairo in June 1929 (Abunas Abreham, Petros, Mikael, Yeshaq), and the fifth (Abuna Sawiros) was consecrated in Addis Ababa in January 1930.
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References
- ^ William Morris, editor (1969 (1971 printing)), “Abuna”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 6.
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Abuna”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.