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English
Etymology
From Amharic አቡነ (ʾäbunä), Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”).
Pronunciation
Noun
abuna (plural abunas)
- (Christianity) The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 242:Around these leaders are still numerous hereditary dynasties of non-monastic clergy who, over the centuries, might swarm in their thousands to seek ordination on the abun’s rare visits to their area.
Translations
head of the Abyssinian church
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Amharic አቡነ (ʾäbunä), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”). First attested in 1564.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈbu.na/
- Rhymes: -una
- Syllabification: a‧bu‧na
Noun
abuna m pers
- (Christianity) abuna (the Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church)
1564, M. Bielski, Kronika, page 462:Pátryárchę wybieráią [chrześcijanie afrykańscy] Mnichá s Klaſztorá S. Antoniego puſtelniká/ á zową go Abunán- [Patryjarchę wybierają [chrześcijanie afrykańscy] Mnicha z Klasztora S. Antoniego pustelnika/ a zową go Abunán]
- African Christians choose a patriarch monk from the hermit Saint Anthony's monastery/and they call him an abuna.
1841, Gazeta Codzienna, number 163, page 3:Nie jest to nic dziwnego, bo Abissyńczycy zawsze Abunę swego z egiptu otrzymują.- This isn't anything strange, because Abyssinians always get their abuna from Egypt.
1974, Wacław Korabiewicz, Śladami amuletu, page 162:Przekradali się konsekrowani przez archimandrytę aleksandryjskiego kolejni abunowie.- The next consecrated abunas snuck over through the Alexandrian archimandrite
2003 July 18, leszek, “ciekawostka z historii Etiopii”, in pl.sci.historia (Usenet):W książce którą cytowałem nie ma takich informacji (ani o odwróceniu
biegu Nilu, ani o prześladowaniu abunów).- In the book I was quoting from there is no information (neither about changing the
course of the Nile nor about harassing abunas.
Declension
References
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “abunan”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
abuna m (plural abunas)
- (Christianity) abuna (the Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church)