: father—a title of honor given variously to the Deity in the New Testament, to bishops and patriarchs in many Eastern churches, and to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin, borrowed from Greek, borrowed from Aramaic abbā
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of abba was before the 12th century