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Abba (given name)

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Abba is a form of ab, meaning "father" in many Semitic languages. It is used as a given name, but was also used as a title or honorific for religious scholars or leaders. (The word abbot has the same root.)

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Jewish/Babylonian/Palestinian religious scholars

  • Abba of Acre (3rd century), Jewish religious scholar
  • Abba Arika (175-247), Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar
  • Abba bar Abba (2nd-3rd century), Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar
  • Abba bar Zabdai (3rd century), Jewish/Palestinian religious scholar
  • Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama (270-350), Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar known in the Talmud as Rava
  • Abba Mordechai Berman (1919-2005), Polish Jewish rabbi and religious scholar
  • Abba Hilkiah (1st century), Jewish Hasidic sage
  • Abba Jose ben Hanan (1st century), Jewish sage and tanna
  • Abba Mari (13th-14th century), French/Jewish rabbi
  • Abba Mari ben Simson Anatoli (c. 1194-1256), a French/Jewish scholar and translator of Arabic texts
  • Raba (Rabbah) Bar Jeremiah (Also called "Abba"), a Jewish Talmudist

    • Horse names of Jimma rulers

  • Abba Bok'a (died 1862), a ruler of the Kingdom of Jimma in what is today southwestern Ethiopia
  • Abba Gomol, ruler of the Kingdom of Jimma 1862-78; son of Abba Bok'a
  • Abba Jifar I (ruled 1830 - c. 1855) and Abba Jifar II (ruled 1878-1932), kings of the Kingdom of Jimma
  • Abba Jofir, Ethiopian aristocrat briefly (1932) king of the Kingdom of Jimma
  • Abba Magal (c. 1800), Oromo leader, father of Abba Jifar I, founder of the Kingdom of Jimma

    • Others

  • Abba (count), a Frisian count
  • Abba Ahimeir (1897-1962), Russian Jewish journalist, historian, and Zionist
  • Abba Eban (1915–2002), an Israeli diplomat and politician
  • Abba Gerasimus (5th century), Lycian Christian monk and abbot revered as a saint
  • Abba Gindin (b. 1946), Finnish/Israeli ice hockey player
  • Abba Habib, Nigerian politician
  • Abba Hushi (1898-1969), Israeli politician
  • Abba Kovner (1918-1987), Lithuanian Jewish/Israeli poet, writer, and partisan leader
  • Abba Kyari (b. 1938), Nigerian military officer, governor, and business leader
  • Abba P. Lerner (1903–1982), an American economist
  • Abba Musa Rimi (b. 1940), Nigerian politician, governor of Kaduna State
  • Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963), U.S. Rabbi and Zionist leader

    • References

    Abba (given name) Wikipedia
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