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.

• kharif

• “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., 2003–2023.

• 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

• rabi in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

• 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic 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.

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

rabí

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