rubbee

English

Alternative forms

rubee

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi [Term?] (literally “spring (season)”)

Adjective

rubbee (not comparable)

(India, archaic) Of or relating to the crops, or harvest of the crops, sown after the rains and reaped in the following spring or early summer.

References

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “rubbee”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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