Abba

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.) Persons with the given name Abba, or who are known by that title 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