abbey

Etymology
From A.D. 1250 in, (compare archaic English ), itself borrowed from , , ,  (Modern French ) from  or , from Classical Latin. . See.



Noun

 * 1) The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
 * 2) A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
 * 3) The church of a monastery.
 * 4)  A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
 * 1)  A residence that was previously an abbatial building.

Translations

 * Afan Oromo:
 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Arabic: دَيْر
 * Egyptian Arabic: دير
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: abadía
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: аба́цтва
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 隱修院
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: abatti
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სააბატო
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Gullah: aa’bay
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, , , )
 * Latin: abbatia
 * Latvian: abatija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Abtei
 * Macedonian: опатија, игуменија
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: abbatija
 * Manx: abban, mannishter
 * Norman: abbaye
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: abbedi
 * Occitan:
 * Old Portuguese: abadia
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: abaid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: опа̀тија
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: batìa
 * Slovak: opátstvo
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: abbottkloster
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Zazaki: manastır, cayge


 * Afrikaans: kloosterkerk
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: манастирска църква
 * Catalan:
 * Cornish: abatti
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Lakota: wic‘áṡa wak‘aŋ t‘ipi
 * Macedonian: игуменија
 * Maltese: abbatija
 * Manx: keeill abban, keeill vaynagh, keeill vannishter
 * Norman: abbaye
 * Norwegian:, klosterkirke
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: abaid
 * Sicilian: batìa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Breton:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Slovak:
 * Volapük:

Etymology
, from or. .

Noun

 * 1) An abbey a building or monastic institution.
 * 2) The church located inside a monastery.
 * 3)  Abbotship; abbacy.