אבא

• Syriac: ܐܒܐ

From Proto-Semitic *ʔabw-.

אַבָּא • (ʾaḇā) m (plural אֲבָהָתָא, singular construct אֲבוּ, feminine counterpart אִמָּא)

1. father, ancestor, progenitor
   • Targum Onkelos, B'midbar 27:6-7

     וַאֲמַר יְיָ לְמשֶׁה לְמֵימָר: יָאוּת בְּנַת צְלָפְחָד מְמַלְּלָן מִתַּן תִּתֵּן לְהוֹן אֲחוּדַת אַחֲסָנָא בְּגוֹ אֲחֵי אֲבוּהֶן וְתַעֲבַר יָת אַחֲסָנַת אֲבוּהֶן לְהֵן:

     waʔămar yəyā ləmōše ləmēmār - yāʔūθ bənaθ sˁəlāp̄ħāð məmalləlān mittan tittēn ləhōn ʔăħūðaθ ʔaħăsānā bəɣō ˀăħē ʔăvūhen wəθaˤăvar yāθ ʔaħăsānaθ ʔăvūhen ləhēn.

     And Hashem spoke to Moshe to say, "What Tselofkhad's daughters say is correct; you shall certainly give them the inheritance of property among the brothers of their father and you will transfer their father's property to them."

2. teacher
3. chief, leader
4. author, originator

• → Ancient Greek: ἀββα (abba) (see there for further descendants)
• → Hebrew: אבא (ába)

• IPA^(key): /ʔɛbɑʔ/

אבא • (transliteration needed) m (plural אבנא or אבא)

1. thicket, woods, grove
2. produce, fruit, vegetable

• “ˀb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press

Borrowed from Aramaic אַבָּא (ʾabbā). Ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾab-. Doublet of אָב ('áv), which is inherited.

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔab.bɔː/ [ˈʔaːb.bɔː]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔab.bɔ/ [ˈʔæːb.bɔː]
• (Persian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)æb.bɒ/
• (Iraqi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔab.ba/
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈʔab.ba/ (East), /ˈ(ʔ)a.ba/ (West)
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)a.bɔ/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)a.ba/

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אַבָּא • (ába) m (plural indefinite אָבוֹת, feminine counterpart אמא)

1. (colloquial) father
   • 2009, אביתר בנאי, אבא

     אבא, אני רוצה לעמוד מולך
     להאמין שאתה אבא טוב
     אבא, אני צריך לדעת שאתה אוהב אותי
     ככה סתם אבא טוב

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (Rabbinic Hebrew) Father, especially the speaker's own father.

This word, just as אִמָּא (íma, “mom”), never takes the definite article, as it always refers to a specific and to the speaker known person, meaning that it is definite by itself.

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