Abun

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Abun

1. A language, sometimes considered an isolate and sometimes considered West Papuan, spoken in Papua and divided into the dialects Abun Tat (Karon Pantai), Abun Ji (Madik), and Abun Je.

• North Bird's Head
• Yimbun, A Nden, Manif, Karon

• ISO 639-3 code kgr (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Abun, kgr ⁠

From Amharic or Tigrinya አቡነ (ʾäbunä), or from a similar Classical Syriac word.

Abun

1. Father, the title of a bishop in an Ethiopian or Coptic church.

• Abuna (the status constructus form used when a name follows, sometimes erroneously used even when it does not precede a name)

• Baun, Nabu, Nuba, Banu, Anbu, Buna

Abun

1. a female given name

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