abbot

Etymology
From, , , from , , , from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) The superior or head of an abbey or monastery.
 * The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary.
 * 1) The pastor or administrator of an order, including minor and major orders starting with the minor order of porter.
 * 2) A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.
 * 3)  A brothel-owner's husband or lover.
 * 4)  A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ab
 * Albanian: kryemurg
 * Arabic: رَئِيس الدَّيْر
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Asturian: abá
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: аба́т
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: abas
 * Crimean Tatar: abbat
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: abbati
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gullah: aabut
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: abbate
 * Irish: ab, luamh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 修道院長,
 * Korean: 승정(僧正), 수도원장(修道院長)
 * Latin: abbās, archimandrīta
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Abt
 * Macedonian: опат, игумен
 * Malay: abbas
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: abb, fer-reill abban
 * Maori: apota
 * Mongolian:
 * Neapolitan: abbate
 * Norman: abbé
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Galician-Portuguese: abade
 * Pali: saṅghaṇāyaka
 * Persian: راهب بزرگ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnol: abêt
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: игуман,, опат,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: / ,
 * Volapük:,  hilepädan
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: abt, abbet
 * Zulu:

Etymology
From, , , , from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) an