רבי

• IPA^(key): /ribi/

רִבִּי • (ribbī) m (plural רבנא)

1. rabbi, spiritual teacher
2. master

• → Ancient Greek: ῥαββί (rhabbí) (see there for further descendants)

רַב (ráv, “master”) +‎ ־י (-i, “my”)

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רַבִּי • (rabí) m

1. rabbi, spiritual teacher

• → Arabic: رَابِي (rābī)

  Tunisian Arabic: ربّي (rǝbbi)

• → Armenian: րաբբի (rabbi)
• → Chinese: 拉比 (lābǐ)
• → English: rabbi
• → Hindi: रबी (rabī)
• → Japanese: ラビ (rabi)
• → Korean: 랍비 (rapbi)
• → Persian: ربی (rabi)
• → Punjabi: ਰੱਬੀ (rabbī)
• → Urdu: ربی (rabī)
• → Yiddish: רבי (rebe)
  • → English: rebbe
  • → Russian: ребе (rebe)
  • → Ukrainian: ребе (rebe)

• ר׳
• רב

• ריב

From Hebrew and Aramaic רבי (“rabbi, spiritual teacher”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛbə/

רבי • (rebe) m, plural רביס (rebes) or רביים (rabeyem), accusative and dative רבין (rebn)

1. (historical or Hasidic) rabbi

   איינער האָט ליב דעם רבין און דער אַנדערער די רביצין.

   eyner hot lib dem rebn un der anderer di rebetsin.

   One man loves the rabbi and the other one loves the rebbetzin.

• This is one of the few Yiddish nouns that decline. The accusative and dative are both רבין (rebn).

• רביצין (rebetsin)
• רביניו (rebenyu)

• → English: rebbe
• → Russian: ребе (rebe)
• → Ukrainian: ребе (rebe)

• רב (reb), ר׳ (r')
• הרבֿ (horav)
• ראַבינער (rabiner)
• רבֿ (rov)