[Eth. and Arab. Abu-na, pater noster, our father.] The Patriarch of the Abyssinian Church.
1635. Pagitt, Christianogr., 40. They are subject to a Patriarch of their owne, whom they call Abunna.
c. 1870. W. Staunton, Eccles. Dict. (ed. 4), Add. 2. Abuna, the native name for … the chief bishop of the Abyssinian church.
