Usage examples for Abba:

• " 'My son, give Me thine heart; ' Yes, Abba Father, yes! "My Life as an Author" – Martin Farquhar Tupper

• Thus, in truth, they have only four numerals, and it is even a question whether these are primitive, for kabbuhin seems a strengthened form of abba and bibuti to bear the same relation to biama. "The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations" – Daniel G. Brinton

• Two rabbis, Chiya bar Abba a Halachist, and Abbahu, a Haggadist, happened to be lecturing in the same town. "Jewish Literature and Other Essays" – Gustav Karpeles

• It was the effort of men who unconsciously, I am willing to think, made religion an affair of rite and observance, instead of seeing in it, like St. Francis, the conquest of the liberty which makes us free in all things, and leads each soul to obey that divine and mysterious power which the flowers of the fields adore, which the birds of the air bless, which the symphony of the stars praises, and which Jesus of Nazareth called Abba that is to say, Father. "Life of St. Francis of Assisi" – Paul Sabatier