abuna
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Amharic አቡነ (ʾäbunä), Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈbuːnə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Polish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Amharic አቡነ (ʾäbunä), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”). First attested in 1564.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abuna m pers
- (Christianity) abuna (the Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church)
- 1564, M. Bielski, Kronika[1], 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[2], 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[3], 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[4] (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
[edit]Declension of abuna
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[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: a‧bu‧na
Noun
[edit]abuna m (plural abunas)
- (Christianity) abuna (the Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church)
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