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Abaddon
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abaddon
English
Alternative forms
en Abaddan Abadon
Etymology
From en enm Abadon, Abbadon, Labadon, Laabadon, from en la-lat Abaddōn, from en grc Ᾰ̓βᾰδδών, from en hbo אֲבַדּוֹן ʔăḇaddōn destruction; ruin, from he אבד ʾāḇaḏ to be lost, to perish.13
Pronunciation
en /əˈbæ.dn̩/ GenAm
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Abaddon.wav Southern England
en A bad don
en /æbədɒːn/ RP
Proper noun
The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; Apollyon;First attested from 1350 to 14702
en poetic Hell; the bottomless pit; a place of destruction. Late 17th century.
4 In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt. 111
Derived terms
en abaddon
Translations
the destroyer
Arabic: ar اَبَادُون m abadūn
Bengali: bn শয়তান, bn অনিষ্টকারী
Bulgarian: bg Ангелът на мрака
Cherokee: chr ᎠᏆᏙᎾ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 亞巴頓
Mandarin: cmn ^亞巴頓
Dutch: nl Apollyon
Esperanto: eo Abadono
Finnish: fi Abaddon
German: de Abaddon m
Greek:
Ancient Greek: grc Ἀβαδδών m
Hindi: hi अबद्दोन
Irish: ga Abadón m
Korean: ko 아바똔
Latin: la Abaddōn m Late Latin
Old English: ang Āwēstend m
Russian: ru Аваддо́н m
Spanish: es Abadón m
Vietnamese: vi con quỷ
Hell
Arabic: ar جَحِيم m
Bengali: bn নরক
Bulgarian: bg преизподня, bg пъкъл
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 亞巴頓
Mandarin: cmn ^亞巴頓
Dutch: nl de (diepten der) hel m
German: de Abaddon m
Spanish: es Abadón m
Vietnamese: vi địa ngục, vi âm phủ, vi âm ti
References
Further reading
Abaddon
en Bible
Latin
Etymology
la Abaddōn :bor grc:Ᾰ̓βᾰδδών 2 1
Pronunciation
Abaddōn yes
Proper noun
Abaddōn m 1
la Late Latin the en name of the en angel of en Tartarus
ante AD 405, anonymous revisor(s) of the Vetus Latina, Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Apocalypsis 9:11:
la et habebant super se regem angelum abyssi cui nomen hebraice Abaddon graece autem Apollyon et latine habet nomen Exterminans And they had over them a king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans. ― Douay–Rheims translation
Synonyms
la Apollȳōn, la Extermināns
Descendants
1 de Abaddon
1 enm Abadon Abbadon Labadon Laabadon
en Abaddon
1 es Abadón
Further reading
la Bible