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abun

abun is the alternative form of abuna.

abun is the alternative form of aboon.

Meaning of abuna

Noun

abuna (plural abunas)

  1. The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
    • 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.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 242

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Meaning of aboon

Preposition

aboon

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Above.

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Proper noun capitalized: Abun

Abun

  1. A language, sometimes considered an isolate and sometimes considered West Papuan, spoken in Papua and divided into the dialects Abun Tat (Karon Pantai), Abun Ji (Madik), and Abun Je.
    Synonyms:
    North Bird's Head, Yimbun, A Nden, Manif, Karon

Noun capitalized: Abun

Abun

  1. Father, the title of a bishop in an Ethiopian or Coptic church.
    Synonyms:
    Abuna

Synonyms of abun

  • North Bird's Head
  • Yimbun
  • A Nden
  • Manif
  • Karon
  • Abuna

Forms of abun

pluralabuns

Origin of abun

From Amharic or Tigrinya አቡነ (ʾäbunä), or from a similar Classical Syriac word.

Questions about abun

What does abun mean?
Abun means a language, sometimes considered an isolate and sometimes considered West Papuan, spoken in Papua and divided into the dialects Abun Tat (Karon Pantai), Abun Ji (Madik), and Abun Je.
What is abun the alternative form of?
Abun is the alternative form of abuna.
What part of speech is abun?
Abun can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near abun in the dictionary

  1. abulics
  2. abulomania
  3. Abulug
  4. abumbral
  5. abumbrellar
  6. abun
  7. abuna
  8. abunas
  9. abundance
  10. abundance of caution
  11. abundances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abun (page history and authors); Abun (page history and authors); abuna (page history and authors); aboon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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