رب

From Proto-Semitic *rabb-, from the root ر ب ب‎ (r-b-b).

• IPA^(key): /rab.ba/

رَبَّ • (rabba) I, non-past يَرُبُّ‎‎ (yarubbu)

1. to be master, to be lord
2. to have possession, to gather, to control
3. to have authority over, to govern
4. to impact, to comprise, to contain
5. to collect, to congregate
6. to grow, to increase, to become greater

رَبَّ • (rabba) I, non-past يَرُبُّ‎‎ (yarubbu)

1. to bring up, to raise (a child)

From Proto-Semitic *rabb-, from the root ر ب ب‎ (r-b-b).

• IPA^(key): /rabb/

رَبّ • (rabb) m (plural أَرْبَاب‎ (ʔarbāb) or رُبُوب‎ (rubūb), feminine رَبَّة‎ (rabba))

1. verbal noun of رَبَّ (rabba) (form I)
2. master, lord, king, sovereign, potentate

   Coordinate terms: عَبْد‎ (ʕabd), خَادِم‎ (ḵādim)

   ‏رَبُّ الدَّار‎ ― rabbu d-dār ― master of the house

   ‏رَبُّ الْعَائِلَة‎ ― rabbu l-ʕāʔila ― paterfamilias

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:41:

     ‏يَا صَاحِبَيِ السِّجْنِ أَمَّا أَحَدُكُمَا فَيَسْقِي رَبَّهُ خَمْرًا ۖ وَأَمَّا الْآخَرُ فَيُصْلَبُ فَتَأْكُلُ الطَّيْرُ مِن رَّأْسِهِ‎

     yā ṣāḥibayi s-sijni ʔammā ʔaḥadukumā fayasqī rabbahu ḵamran waʔammā l-ʔāḵaru fayuṣlabu fataʔkulu ṭ-ṭayru min rraʔsihi

     “O my fellow inmates! One of you will serve his master wine; while the other will be crucified, and the birds will eat from his head. Thus the matter you are inquiring about is settled.”

3. Lord, an epithet of God

   ‏اَللهُ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِين‎ ― allāhu rabbu l-ʕālamīn ― God Lord of the Worlds

   ‏الرَّبّ‎ ― ar-rabb ― the LORD

4. god, deity
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:39:

     ‏يَاصَاحِبَيِ السِّجْنِ ءَأَرْبَابٌ مُّتَفَرِّقُونَ خَيْرٌ أَمِ اللہُ الْوَاحِدُ الْقَهَّارُ‎

     [Joseph said:] "O my two companions of the prison! Are many different deities better than God the One [Who is the Source of all things], the Overpowering?"

5. leader, chief, head

   ‏رَبُّ بَحْرِيّ‎ ― rabbu baḥriyy ― seaman (naval rank)

6. owner, proprietor
7. (with a following genitive) one possessed of, one endowed with
8. (with a following genitive) having to do with

• رُبُوبِيَّة‎ (rubūbiyya)
• رُبَّان‎ (rubbān)
• إِلَٰه‎ (ʔilāh)
• الله‎ (allāh)

• → Afar: Rábbi
• → Azerbaijani: rəbb, Rəbb
• → Bashkir: раббы (rabbı)
• → Bengali: রব (rbo)
• → Ottoman Turkish: رب‎ (rabb)
  • Serbo-Croatian: rȁb, ра̏б
• (via plural) → Ottoman Turkish: ارباب‎
  • Turkish: erbap
  • → Macedonian: ербап (erbap)

From the root ر ب ب‎ (r-b-b).

• IPA^(key): /rubb/

رُبّ • (rubb) m (plural رِبَاب‎ (ribāb) or رُبُوب‎ (rubūb))

1. thickened fruit juice, thickened juice
2. mash, pulp

• → Middle Armenian: ռուպ (ṙup), ըռուպ (əṙup)
• → Persian: رب‎ (rob)
• → Spanish: arrope
  • → English: arrope

• مُرَبَّب‎ (murabbab, “jam, marmalade”)

From Proto-Semitic *rabb-, from the root ر ب ب‎ (r-b-b).

• IPA^(key): /rub.ba/

رُبَّ • (rubba)

1. (with a following indefinite genitive) many

   رُبَّ رَجُلٍ‎ (rubba rajulin, “many a man”)

   رُبَّ مَرَّةٍ‎ (rubba marratin, “many a time”)

Indeclinable, followed by the indefinite genitive singular.

رُبَّ • (rubba)

1. likely, perhaps, mayhap, potentially

• IPA^(key): /rab.bi/

رَبِّ • (rabbi) (form II)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of رَبَّى‎ (rabbā)

From Arabic رَبّ‎ (rabb).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /ɾabː/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /ɾabː/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ɾæbː/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /ɾabː/

رب • (rabb)

1. master, lord

رب • (rabb)

1. Lord
2. God

From Arabic رُبّ‎ (rubb).

رب • (robb)

1. tomato sauce

From Persian رب‎ (rabb), from Arabic رَبّ‎ (rabb).

• IPA^(key): /rəbːᵊ/

رَبّ • (rabb) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਰੱਬ)

1. God

   Synonyms: واہِگُرُو‎ (vāhigurū), اللہ‎ (allāh)

Borrowed from Arabic رَبّ‎ (rabb).

رب • (rab) m (Hindi spelling रब)

1. God
2. Lord

• خدا‎ (xudā)
• الله‎ (allāh)
• بھگوان‎ (bhagvān)