Definition of Abba:

part of speech: noun

A father; a name given in the East to church dignitaries- hence baba, papa, pope.

Usage examples:

• " 'My son, give Me thine heart; ' Yes, Abba Father, yes! Martin Farquhar Tupper in "My Life as an Author".

• Thus, in truth, they have only four numerals, and it is even a question whether these are primitive, for kabbuhin seems a strengthened form of abba and bibuti to bear the same relation to biama. Daniel G. Brinton in "The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations".

• They are:- 1 abba Daniel G. Brinton in "The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations".