rabi

See also: rabí, and rabî

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹabi/

Noun

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.

See also

• kharif

References

• “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.

Anagrams

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

Emilian

Noun

rabi f

1. plural of ràbia

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrabi]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -abi
• Hyphenation: ra‧bi

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of rabi

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		rabas		rabis		rabos
active participle		rabanta	rabantaj	rabinta	rabintaj	rabonta	rabontaj
	acc.	rabantan	rabantajn	rabintan	rabintajn	rabontan	rabontajn
passive participle		rabata	rabataj	rabita	rabitaj	rabota	rabotaj
	acc.	rabatan	rabatajn	rabitan	rabitajn	rabotan	rabotajn
nominal active participle		rabanto	rabantoj	rabinto	rabintoj	rabonto	rabontoj
	acc.	rabanton	rabantojn	rabinton	rabintojn	rabonton	rabontojn
nominal passive participle		rabato	rabatoj	rabito	rabitoj	raboto	rabotoj
	acc.	rabaton	rabatojn	rabiton	rabitojn	raboton	rabotojn
adverbial active participle		rabante		rabinte		rabonte
adverbial passive participle		rabate		rabite		rabote

infinitive		rabi						imperative		rabu						conditional		rabus

Derived terms

• 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”)

Related terms

• ŝteli (“to steal”)

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

rabi (genitive rabi, partitive rabi)

1. rabbi

Declension

Declension of rabi (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		rabi	rabid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	rabi
genitive			rabide
partitive		rabi	rabisid
illative		rappi rabisse	rabidesse
inessive		rabis	rabides
elative		rabist	rabidest
allative		rabile	rabidele
adessive		rabil	rabidel
ablative		rabilt	rabidelt
translative		rabiks	rabideks
terminative		rabini	rabideni
essive		rabina	rabidena
abessive		rabita	rabideta
comitative		rabiga	rabidega

References

• rabi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Further reading

• “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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. my God.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Further reading

• “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.

Javanese

Javanese register set
ꦏꦿꦩ​ꦲꦶꦁ​ꦒꦶꦭ꧀ (krama inggil): garwa putri
ꦏꦿꦩꦔꦺꦴꦏꦺꦴ (krama-ngoko): rabi
ꦔꦺꦴꦏꦺꦴ (ngoko): bojo wadon

Noun

rabi

1. (dialectal) wife

Middle English

Noun

rabi

1. Alternative form of raby

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

rabi (Cyrillic spelling раби)

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

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rabí.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾaˈbi/ [ɾɐˈbi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ra‧bi

Noun

rabí (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜊᜒ)

1. rabbi

   Synonym: rabino

Anagrams

• bira, abri

Welsh

Alternative forms

• rabbi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrabi/

Noun

rabi m (plural rabiniaid or rabïaid, not mutable)

1. (Judaism) rabbi