abat

From Italian abate.

• IPA^(key): [aˈbat]

abat m (indefinite plural abatë(r), definite singular abati, definite plural abatët)

1. abbot

• abat in Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe at shkenca.org
• Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000) Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, →ISBN, page 27 (abat)

• abatu

From Late Latin abbattō, from Latin battō. Compare Romanian abat, abate.

abat (third-person singular present indicative abati or abate, past participle abãtutã)

1. I make space, distance myself.
2. I divert, deviate.

• abatiri/abatire
• abãtut
• bat

From Latin abbās, abbātem (“abbot”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶ (abbâ), from Aramaic אבא‎ (’abbā, “father”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əˈbat/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aˈbat/

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• Rhymes: -at

abat m (plural abats)

1. abbot
2. rector

   Synonym: rector

3. a type of sausage made using the stomach of a pig as the casing, and stuffed with minced meat

abat

1. third-person singular present indicative form of abatre
2. second-person singular imperative form of abatre

• “abat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• Hyphenation: a‧bat

abat

1. (folklore) a vampirelike creature or monster

abat

1. to be a prey or victim to this creature
2. (of an abat) to hunt or attack prey

For quotations using this term, see Citations:abat.

• abta, atab, baat, bata

• IPA^(key): /a.ba/

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abat

1. third-person singular present indicative of abattre

abat m (plural abats)

1. giblet

• “abat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Bengali আবাদ (abad). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

abat

1. cultivation

abat (diminutive abát-ábat, causative paábat, frequentative abát-ábat)

1. to follow after

abat

1. To accost
2. To ambush

From French abattre.

IPA^(key): /a.ba.twa/

1. To discourage
2. To depress

• Klingler, T. A., & Valdman, A. (1998). Dictionary of Louisiana Creole. Indiana Univ. Press.

From Old French abatre, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere.

• IPA^(key): /a.ba/

abat m

1. a downpour of rain

• Spence, N.C.W. (1960). Glossary of Jersey-French. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 39.

From Old Occitan, from Latin abbās, abbātem (“abbot”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶ (abbâ), from Aramaic אבא‎ (’abbā, “father”).

• IPA^(key): [aˈβat]

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abat m (plural abats)

1. abbot

• IPA^(key): [aˈbat]

abat

1. inflection of abate:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟban ~ *ɟbaan (“skirt; girdle”).

abat[1]

1. cloth, dress, garment

• Hyphenation: a‧bat
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈbat/, [ʔɐˈbat]

abát

1. ambush; snare; waylaying

• IPA^(key): /aːbat/
• Hyphenation: a‧bat

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آباد‎ (abad, “future eternities”)[1][2], from Arabic آبَاد‎ (ʔābād).

abat (definite accusative abadı, uncountable)

1. (obsolete) plural of ebet.

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آباد‎ (abad, “prosperous, in good condition, not in ruins, not deserted and neglected”)[1][3], from Persian آباد‎ (âbâd, “inhabitable, inhabited, populous, cultivated”)[4].

abat

1. (archaic) Developed, flourishing, cultivated.

   Synonyms: bayındır, bakımlı, mamur, elverişli, ongun

2. (archaic) Comfortable, prosperous.

   Synonyms: müreffeh, ongun, muvaffakiyetli

• abat in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu