rabi

Borrowed from Hindustani ربیع (rabī) / रबी (rabī), from Persian ربیع (rabi'), from Arabic رَبِيع (rabīʕ, “spring”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹabi/

rabi (plural rabis)

1. (South Asia) Spring. [from 18th c.]
2. (South Asia) The spring harvest. [from 19th c.]
   • c. 1885, A.L.O.E, The Wondrous Sickle:

     ...I made out that he would be here before the rabi harvest is ripe; the corn is green enough yet, but I thought that after work I would come over here to meet him.

   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 120:

     The monsoon had failed at the beginning but picked up very well later, so the rabi crop would be just fine and the wars they mentioned had taken place a year and a half ago.

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• “rabi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “rabi”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “rabi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

• Abir, Bair, Bari, Bria, RAIB, RIBA, abir, abri, bari, riba

rabi f

1. plural of ràbia

From German rauben, Polish rabować. Compare English rob. Doublet of robo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrabi]
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• Rhymes: -abi
• Hyphenation: ra‧bi

rabi (present rabas, past rabis, future rabos, conditional rabus, volitive rabu)

1. (transitive) to take from someone by force or threat, to rob

• rabaĵo (“something acquired by robbery”)
• rabinto (“robber (one who has committed a robbery)”)
• rabisto (“robber (one who makes a living by robbery)”)
• rabo (“a robbery”)

• ŝteli (“to steal”)

From German Rabbi, ultimately from Hebrew רבי (rabī, “my master”).

rabi (genitive rabi, partitive rabi)

1. rabbi

• rabi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• “rabi”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• IPA^(key): [ˈrabi]
• Hyphenation: ra‧bi

From Arabic رَبِّي (rabbī, “my God”), رَبّ (rabb, “God, Lord”, literally “master, lord, king, sovereign”), from Proto-Semitic *rabb-.

rabi (first-person possessive rabiku, second-person possessive rabimu, third-person possessive rabinya)

1. my God.

From (post-Tanakh) Hebrew רַבִּי (rabbi, “my master”), from רַב (rav, “master [of]”) +‎ ־י (-i, “me”), from Proto-Semitic *rabb-.

rabi (plural rabi-rabi, first-person possessive rabiku, second-person possessive rabimu, third-person possessive rabinya)

1. rabbi, a Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions, who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation.

• “rabi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

rabi

1. (dialectal) wife

rabi

1. Alternative form of raby

rabi (Cyrillic spelling раби)

1. inflection of rabiti:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Spanish rabí.

• IPA^(key): /ɾaˈbi/, [ɾɐˈbi]
• Hyphenation: ra‧bi

rabí (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜊᜒ)

1. rabbi

   Synonym: rabino

• rabbi

Borrowed from Latin rabbi, from Ancient Greek ῥαββί (rhabbí), from Hebrew רַבִּי (rabbî).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrabi/

rabi m (plural rabiniaid or rabïaid, not mutable)

1. (Judaism) rabbi