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Abu

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A language of Papua New Guinea.

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    A language of Papua New Guinea.

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    A common part of Arabic-derived names, meaning "father of" in Arabic.

    There were harsher comments from Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas: "The negotiations are in a state of paralysis, and the result of Israel's intransigence and America's backpedalling is that there is no hope of negotiations on the horizon."

Etymology

From Arabic أَبُو (ʔabū).

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    Ab, the fifth month of the Babylonian calendar.

Etymology

From Akkadian 𒉈 (Abu). Compare Av.

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    A minor god of vegetation in Sumerian mythology.

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    The ancient Egyptian name for the city of Elephantine, near modern day Aswan.

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    A volcano on the island of Honshū in Japan.

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    Abu, Yamaguchi, a town in Japan.

Etymology

From Japanese 阿武 (Abu).

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    Mount Abu, the highest mountain in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).