The story
- Arabic · borrowed fromعَبَّاس“one who frowns a lot; untamed lion”
- English todayAbbas
From Arabic عَبَّاس (ʕabbās, “one who frowns a lot; untamed lion”), from عَبَسَ (ʕabasa, “to frown”), the title of the eightieth sura of the Qur'an.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.