аббат
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian abbate, or Middle High German abbāt, from Latin abbās (“abbot”), oblique stem abbat-. See for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɐˈb(ː)at]
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Noun
абба́т • (abbát) m anim (genitive абба́та, nominative plural абба́ты, genitive plural абба́тов, female equivalent аббати́са, relational adjective абба́тский)
- (Christianity) abbot, priest
- Synonyms: игу́мен (igúmen), настоя́тель монастыря́ (nastojátelʹ monastyrjá)
Declension
Declension of абба́т (anim masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
Derived terms
- абба́тство n (abbátstvo)
Related terms
Close related:
- аббати́са f anim (abbatísa)
Related via Hebrew אב:
Descendants
- → Georgian: აბატი (abaṭi)
See also
- свяще́нник (svjaščénnik), жрец (žrec)
Further reading
- Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “аббат”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.