abuna

See also: Abuna and Abunã

English

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Etymology

From Amharic አቡነ (abuna), Arabic أَبُونَا‎ (ʾabū-nā, “our father”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈbuːnə/

Noun

abuna (plural abunas)

  1. (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

Portuguese

Noun

abuna m (plural abunas)

  1. (Christianity) abuna (head of the Abyssinian church)
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