Your ShelfYour Projects
Webster's Dictionary (1865)

2 entries under this word

Ab

Ăb

a prefix to words of Latin origin, and a Latin preposition, as in abduct, is the same as the Greek ἀπό, Skr. apa, Lith. ap, api, O. H. Ger. apa, aba, M. H. Ger. abe, Ger. ab, Goth., O. Sax., Icel., D., Sw., Dan., af, A-S. and Eng. of. It denotes from, separating, or departure. Before c and t, it is generally changed into abs, as in abscess, abscond, abstain, abstemious.

Ăb, n.

noun

n. [Of Syriac origin.] The eleventh month of the Jewish civil year, and the fifth of the ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of July and a part of August. Kitto.