Abas

See also: Appendix:Variations of "abas"

Kavalan

Proper noun

Abas

1. a female given name

References

• Center for aboriginal studies (2014), “Abas”, in 原住民族人名譜 [Dictionary of Indigenous Names in Taiwan]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples

Latin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄβας (Ábas).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.bas]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.bas]

Proper noun

Abas m (genitive Abantis); third declension

1. A personal name found in Greek and Roman mythology, famously held by:
   1. Abas (the twelfth king of Argos)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Abas	Abantēs
genitive	Abantis	Abantum
dative	Abantī	Abantibus
accusative	Abantem	Abantēs
ablative	Abante	Abantibus
vocative	Abas	Abantēs

Derived terms

• abantēus (“pertaining to Abas”, adjective)
• Abantiadēs (“male descendant of Abas”, noun)
• Abantias (“female descendant, land of Abas”, noun)
• abantius (“pertaining to [the land of] Abas”, adjective)

References

• “Abas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Abas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.baːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.bas]

Proper noun

Abās

1. accusative plural of Abae

Sherbro

Proper noun

Abas

1. a male given name

References

• Childs, G. Tucker (2025), A grammar of Sherbro, Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 193