title: Dabbas (surname)
text: # Dabbas (surname)
  
  Dabbas (also anglicized as Debbas; Arabic: دَبَّاس, romanized: Dabbās) is an Arabic-language surname from the word دَبَّاس (dabbās) meaning 'maker or seller of دِبْس (dibs, 'syrup, molasses')'. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Athanasius II Dabbas (died 1619), Melkite Greek Patriarch of Antioch
  * Athanasius III Dabbas (1647–1724), Melkite Greek Patriarch of Antioch
  * Cyril IV Dabbas, Patriarch claimant who contended with Ignatius III Atiyah
  * Mohammad Dabbas (1927–2014), Jordanian politician
  * Charles Debbas (1884–1935), Eastern Orthodox Lebanese political figure
  * J. Abdo Debbas, Ottoman Greek who served as American vice-consul at Tarsus
  * Ralph Debbas (born 1987), Lebanese automotive entrepreneur, designer, and businessman
  