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 Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The fe ...

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 Abba Arikha (175–247 CE; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: ; born: ''Rav Abba bar Aybo'', ), commonly known as Rav (), was a Jewish amora of the 3rd century. He was born and lived in Kafri, Asoristan, in the Sasanian Empire. Abba Arikha establis ...

(175-247), Jewish/Babylonian religious scholar *

Abba bar Abba Abba bar Abba ( Aramic: אבא בר אבא, or Father of Samuel, Aramic: אבוה דשמואל; Cited in the Jerusalem Talmud as Abba bar Ba, Aramic: אבא בר בא) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia in the 2nd-3rd centuries (fi ...

(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 Abba Jose ben Hanan or Abba Jose ben Hanin (Hebrew; Aramaic: Abba bar Hanan) was a tanna who lived in Judea. His name occurs also as "Abba Jose ben Hanan," or "ben Johanan" (which is erroneously followed by "ish Yerushalayim"), "Abba Joseph," and " ...

(1st century), Jewish sage and tanna *

Abba Mari Rabbi Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph, was a Provençal rabbi, born at Lunel, near Montpellier, towards the end of the 13th century. He is also known as Yarhi from his birthplace (Hebrew ''Yerah'', i.e. moon, lune), and he further took the name ...

(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 ''Moti'' Abba Bok'a was King of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma (reigned 1859–1862). He was the son of Abba Magal, and brother of Abba Jifar I. Reign Because the son of his nephew, Moti Abba Rebu ''Moti'' Abba Rebu was King of the Gibe Ki ...

(died 1862), a ruler of the Kingdom of Jimma in what is today southwestern Ethiopia *

Abba Gomol ''Moti'' Abba Gomol was King of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma (reigned 1862–1878). Reign Abba Gomol was the son of Abba Bok'a and a woman from the Busase family of the Kingdom of Kaffa The Kingdom of Kaffa was a kingdom located in what is ...

, ruler of the Kingdom of Jimma 1862-78; son of Abba Bok'a *

Abba Jifar I ''Moti'' Abba Jifar I (r. 1830–1855) was the first king of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma. Reign Abba Jifar was the son of Abba Magal, who was a leader of the Diggo Oromo. He built upon the political and military base his father had provided ...

(ruled 1830 - c. 1855) and

Abba Jifar II ''Moti'' Abba Jifar II ( om, Mootii Abbaa Jifaar; 1861 – 1932) was King of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma (r. 1878–1932). Reign Abba Jifar II was king of Jimma, and the son of Abba Gomol and Queen Gumiti. He had several wives: Queen Limmiti ...

(ruled 1878-1932), kings of the Kingdom of Jimma * Abba Jofir, Ethiopian aristocrat briefly (1932) king of the Kingdom of Jimma *

Abba Magal Abba Magal () was a leader of the Diggo Oromo, and the father of Abba Jifar I. Previously, the Diggo, based in the area of Mana, had conquered the nearby town of Hirmata that was home to the Lalo people. This victory gave Abba Magal enough wealth ...

(c. 1800), Oromo leader, father of Abba Jifar I, founder of the Kingdom of Jimma

Others

* Abba (count), a Frisian count *

Abba Thulle Abba Thulle was the ibedul, of Koror whom the sailor Henry Wilson and his crew met on their voyage to Palau in 1783. His second son Prince Lee Boo became one of the first people from the Pacific Islands to visit Great Britain, but died six m ...

, ibedul of Koror *

Abba Ahimeir Abba Ahimeir ( he, אב"א אחימאיר, russian: Аба Шойл Гайсинович; 2 November 1897 – 6 June 1962) was a Russian-born Jewish journalist, historian, and political activist. One of the ideologues of Revisionist Zionism, ...

(1897-1962), Russian Jewish journalist, historian, and Zionist *

Abba Eban Abba Solomon Meir Eban (; he, אבא אבן ; born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages. During his career, he served as Fo ...

(1915–2002), Israeli diplomat and politician, and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science * Abba Gerasimus (5th century), Lycian Christian monk and abbot revered as a saint *

Abba Gindin Abraham "Abba" Gindin ( he, אברהם "אבא" גינדין; born 24 December 1945 in Helsinki, Finland) is a former Israeli professional football player. Early life Gindin was born and raised in Finland and grew up playing ice hockey and footb ...

(b. 1946), Finnish/Israeli ice hockey player * Abba Habib, Nigerian politician * Abbot "Abbie" Hoffman, whose Hebrew name was Abba *

Abba Hushi Abba Hushi (Also: Aba Khoushy; he, אבא חושי; born Abba Schneller; 1898 – 24 March 1969) was an Israeli politician who served as mayor of Haifa for eighteen years between 1951 and 1969. Hushi was one of the founders and activists of Has ...

(1898-1969), Israeli politician *

Abba Kovner Abba Kovner ( he, אבא קובנר; 14 March 1918 – 25 September 1987) was a Polish Israeli poet, writer and partisan leader. In the Vilna Ghetto, his manifesto was the first time that a target of the Holocaust identified the German plan ...

(1918-1987), Lithuanian Jewish/Israeli poet, writer, and partisan leader *

Abba Kyari Abba Kyari (23 September 1952 – 17 April 2020) was a Nigerian lawyer who served as Chief of Staff to the President of Nigeria from August 2015 to April 2020. Early life Kyari was born on 23 September 1952, to a Shuwa Arab family fr ...

(1938-2020), Nigerian military officer, governor, and business leader *

Abba P. Lerner Abraham "Abba" Ptachya Lerner (also Abba Psachia Lerner; 28 October 1903 – 27 October 1982) was a Russian-born American-British economist. Biography Born in Novoselytsia, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, Lerner grew up in a Jewish family, which ...

(1903–1982), American economist *

Abba Musa Rimi Abba Musa Rimi CON (born 28 February 1940) is a Nigerian politician who was elected Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria in October 1979 during the Nigerian Second Republic, becoming acting governor when the Governor Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa ...

(b. 1940), Nigerian politician, governor of

Kaduna State Kaduna State ( ha, Jihar Kaduna جىِهَر كَدُنا; ff, Leydi Kaduna, script=Latn, ; kcg, Sitet Kaduna) is a state in northern Nigeria. The state capital is its namesake, the city of Kaduna which happened to be the 8th largest city in ...

Abba Hillel Silver Abba Hillel Silver (January 28, 1893 – November 28, 1963) was an American Rabbi and Zionist leader. He was a key figure in the mobilization of American support for the founding of the State of Israel, though he saw such a settlement as a me ...

(1893–1963), U.S. Rabbi and Zionist leader * Abba Goold Woolson (1838-1921), American writer * Abba Wada, Nigerian business tycoon, and hero

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

Jewish/Babylonian/Palestinian religious scholars

Horse names of Jimma rulers

Others

See also