abba
Pronunciations
Definitions
n. Father, dad, daddy.
Example Sentences
"My aba taught me how to cook scrambled eggs as a child."
Languages of Origin
- Modern Hebrew
Etymology
אבא
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Israel: Diaspora Jews who feel connected to Israel and have spent time there
- Younger: Jews in their 30s or younger
- North America
- Australia / New Zealand
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings
aba
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