مربى

Derived from the passive participle of رَبَّى‎ (rabbā, “to bring up, to educate, to cultivate”), from the root ر ب و‎ (r-b-w).

• IPA^(key): /mu.rab.baː/

مُرَبَّى • (murabbā) m (dual مُرَبَّيَانِ‎ (murabbayāni), plural مُرَبَّيَات‎ (murabbayāt))

1. jam, preserved fruit
2. (in the plural) preserves

• → Middle Armenian: մուրապայ (murapay), մուրապպայ (murappay), մարապ (marap)
  • Armenian: մուրաբա (muraba)
• → Avar: мурапа (murapa)
• → Azerbaijani: mürəbbə
• → English: murabba
• → Georgian: მურაბა (muraba)
• → Kumyk: мураба (muraba)
• → Persian: مربا‎ (morabbâ)
  • Tajik: мураббо (murabbo)
  • → Hindustani: murabbā

    Hindi: मुरब्बा

    Urdu: مربا‎

  • → Ottoman Turkish: مربا‎ (mürebba)
  • → Uyghur: مۇراببا‎ (murabba)
  • → Uzbek: murabbo
• → Ottoman Turkish: مربی‎ (murabba)
  • Turkish: murabba

مُرَبًّى • (murabban) (feminine مُرَبَّاة‎ (murabbāh), masculine plural مُرَبَّوْن‎ (murabbawn), feminine plural مُرَبَّيَات‎ (murabbayāt))

1. raised, brought up
2. educated
3. well-bred

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ربو”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic مُرَبَّى‎ (murabbā).

• IPA^(key): /murabːa/

مربى • (murabba) f (construct state مربى (murabbat) or مربة‎ (murabbat), dual مربتين‎ (murabbatēn), plural مُرَبَّات‎ (murabbāt))

1. jam

In Hejazi the noun is feminine and even though it ends in an /-a/, it still follows the feminine noun rule in construct state and dual number; مُرَبَّتين‎ (murabbatēn) instead of مُرَبَّيَانِ‎ (murabbayāni).

• مُتْرَبِّي‎ (mutrabbi, “well-bred, well behaved”)