abuna
English
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Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈbuːnə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
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.
Polish
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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
- African Christians choose a patriarch monk from the hermit Saint Anthony's monastery/and they call him an abuna.
- 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.
- In the book I was quoting from there is no information (neither about changing the
Declension
Declension of abuna
singular | plural | |
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nominative | abuna | abunowie |
genitive | abuny | abunów |
dative | abunowi | abunom |
accusative | abunę | abunów |
instrumental | abuną | abunami |
locative | abunie | abunach |
vocative | abuno | abunowie |
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
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