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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Muslim (widespread throughout the Muslim world): from the Arabic personal name ‛Abbās, literally ‘stern’, ‘austere’. ‛Abbās was the name of an uncle (died 652) of the Prophet Muhammad, the ancestor of the Abbasid dynasty (see Abbasi).
  2. German: Latinized form of Abt ‘abbot’.